On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
> On 9/4/10 9:35 AM, kcrisman wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sep 3, 11:55 pm, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've changed thehttp://sagemath.orgwiki password phrase from "Number
>>> of primes up to 100?" to "Number of primes up to 1000?"    The answer
>>> is 168.
>>>
>>
>> Does the Wiki software allow for dynamically changing the question
>> each time to "Number of primes up to" random integer from 100 to
>> 1000?  That might solve it longer term, since presumably the spammers
>> do have ways to get this answer without much effort (like reading this
>> list).  But maybe that's not possible currently.
>>
>
> Please don't do that unless it's absolutely needed.  Making a person run a
> computation in Sage *each time* they want to edit the wiki is too high of a
> barrier for normal people, I think.  It would definitely discourage me from
> editing the wiki.

I won't do that.

By the way, if anybody knows how to change the wiki so it only asks a
question when you are signing up for a new account, that would be
good.

William

>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
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University of Washington
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