Almost every day, Justin, Makopoppo and I have to delete spam from the wiki, and lately, we have seen a steady increase of the amount of spam that pops up on the wiki. I would therefore like to propose installing the ConfirmEdit extension on the OpenSim wiki, which will present the user with a captcha when the newly added text contains an external link. I do believe that requiring decoding a captcha when a newly added text contains an external link will dramatically decrease the number of successful spamming attempts on the wiki. To regular users, a captcha may be a minor inconvenience, in that they will have to perform one additional, but small, step before their text is published. For spammers however, it will be a hindrance, because they will no longer be able to use an automated process to sign up, and post their spam.
More infor on the extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit -- Friti _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
