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==CAPTCHA== | ==CAPTCHA== | ||
Should we install [http://www.captcha.net/ CAPTCHA]? And if so, how should we implement it? My thoughts are that we would require it for all anonymous edits and for user registration. What do you all think? Would this be too annoying? [[User:Tfooq|Tfooq]] 13:10, 2 January 2008 (CST) | Should we install [http://www.captcha.net/ CAPTCHA]? And if so, how should we implement it? My thoughts are that we would require it for all anonymous edits and for user registration. What do you all think? Would this be too annoying? [[User:Tfooq|Tfooq]] 13:10, 2 January 2008 (CST) | ||
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| + | We couldn't have just added on to [[The Wiki Fire talk:Housekeeping|the old spam discussion]]? Anyway, I agree that we should require it for the anonymous edits and for user registration. Most anonymous editors, whether people with accounts or not, are not likely to be making a whole lot of edits in a particular visit, and therefore the CAPTCHA would be a minor inconvenience. [[User:Camozzi|Camozzi]] 14:07, 2 January 2008 (CST) | ||
==Blacklist== | ==Blacklist== | ||
Several months ago I installed the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist Spamblacklist] extension, and it got rid of ''almost'' all the site's spam that included external links. | Several months ago I installed the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist Spamblacklist] extension, and it got rid of ''almost'' all the site's spam that included external links. | ||
Revision as of 13:07, 2 January 2008
Use this article to discuss spam problems on the site.
CAPTCHA
Should we install CAPTCHA? And if so, how should we implement it? My thoughts are that we would require it for all anonymous edits and for user registration. What do you all think? Would this be too annoying? Tfooq 13:10, 2 January 2008 (CST)
We couldn't have just added on to the old spam discussion? Anyway, I agree that we should require it for the anonymous edits and for user registration. Most anonymous editors, whether people with accounts or not, are not likely to be making a whole lot of edits in a particular visit, and therefore the CAPTCHA would be a minor inconvenience. Camozzi 14:07, 2 January 2008 (CST)
Blacklist
Several months ago I installed the Spamblacklist extension, and it got rid of almost all the site's spam that included external links.
