On 19.03.2013 09:14, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 18.03.2013 19:58, Paul Boddie wrote: >> On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie <p...@boddie.org.uk> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with >>>> administrative privileges check that the textcha feature is enabled and >>>> has been given a set of effective questions? >>> >>> You can see that it is enabled by visiting this link: >>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontPage?action=newaccount >>> >>> (make sure you are logged out) >>> >>> As for the questions, I'm open to suggestions. >> >> I don't think "How many words are in this question?" is really setting the >> bar >> very high for spammers. Textcha questions are supposed to retain the context >> of the site on which they are placed so that bulk spamming cannot just >> scrape >> the question and serve it up to someone on some other site. This means that >> we should be asking Python-related questions, not simple "Are you human?" >> questions that ceased to be effective about ten years ago. > > Reimar is currently running a test on the Jython wiki. He marked > "http" as bad content, which results in all edits including that > word to get rejected. > > At least on the Jython wiki, this has apparently stopped the spam > pages from getting created: > > http://wiki.python.org/jython/RecentChanges > > It's not a permanent solution, though, since it prevents adding > links to pages.
The experiment has resulted in the spam being stopped. Unfortunately, it also prohibited any edits of pages with links on them - even by regular wiki users. I've removed the http again and will add a new set of textchas for now. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg PSF Vice Chairman _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www