Image CAPTCHA is fine if it's written well. The problem is that if a blind
person visits your site, they are locked out.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Captcha
I still recommend other forms of spam blocking, such as blacklisting.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Spam_blacklist
Or the Bad Behavior plugin to MediaWiki:
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/installing-and-using-bad-behavior/on-mediawiki/
On 6/15/07, Eeli Kaikkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, DM Smith wrote:
> One of the other techniques is to show an image of text and have the
> user accurately enter the text.
> This allows anyone to edit anonymously, but not without personally
> making the change.
> This would prevent bots from spamming the page.
I was actually thinking about that but didn't know it works with
mediawiki, or does it? I think this is better solution.
Yours,
Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (with no x)
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