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From: Greg Smith <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] We need an Advocacy wiki
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:10:14 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Decibel! wrote:

> Well, at the bare minimum we need a captcha or something similar.
> Without that then yes, we're going to get all kinds of crap accounts.
> Do we just have that turned off, or does mediawiki actually not support
> that?

There are a couple of levels of captcha you can setup.  For example, one 
wiki I work on a regularly allows edits by any account as soon as it's 
created.  But if you add a reference to a URL that's outside of the Wiki 
itself, committing that edit requires completing a captcha (where the data 
you type is a combination of two common words appearing in the wiki). 
This makes it so anyone can add regular content almost instantly, but 
since the spammers can't automate linking to their sites it makes them 
less likely to target you.

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* Greg Smith [email protected] http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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