[Psi-devel] wiki spam

Kevin Smith kevin at kismith.co.uk
Sat Jun 24 17:01:35 PDT 2006


On 24 Jun 2006, at 23:47, Mircea Bardac wrote:
> On Sunday 25 June 2006 01:36, Hal Rottenberg wrote:
>> Spam on the wiki is ramping up again.  FWIW, I'm stopping about 30
>> attempts a day with anti-vandal scripts.  Just letting you know  
>> that I
>> know about it and am working on it.
>
> Hmm.. are we using captchas for registration?
> Captchas + registered user only edits will eliminate most of the  
> bots, right?

If you're going to have captchas, ideally you'd allow anonymous edits  
with captchas.

/K

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