On Feb 14, 2013 5:13 PM, "David Gerard" <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 14 February 2013 16:05, janI <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi you are quite right, our "create account" is not friendly towards blind > > people, having said that we need something like that in order to fight > > spam, and anybody who has a problem creating an account can mail this help > > and will get help. > > > rationalwiki.org, which I'm a volunteer sysadmin on, uses MediaWiki > with QuestyCaptcha with some success: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha > > It asks a question in text form. This utterly confuses the spambots in > our experience. > > Downside: it's really annoying to configure. > I looked at that, but you really need somebody to maintain the questions (at least as I saw it), and that is a resource which we dont have today.
There are many different captcha's available, and we tried some different ones. At least to me (as a maintainer) it is important to use one that does not require running maintenance, or takes a long time to configure. I do the maintenance of the mwiki (at OS level, others do a great job at sysop level), and cannot devote my full time to it. rgds Jan I. > > - d.
