Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D579FB597 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:10:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43614-10 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:10:07 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from westnet.com (westnet.com [216.187.52.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CCC69FB550 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:10:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from westnet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l766AEMk005509 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:10:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gsmith@localhost) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.13.2/Submit) with ESMTP id l766AEV7005506 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:10:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: westnet.com: gsmith owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:10:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Smith X-X-Sender: gsmith@westnet.com To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] We need an Advocacy wiki In-Reply-To: <20070804172833.GO25704@nasby.net> Message-ID: References: <200708041020.36108.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> <46B4980C.5040700@postgresql.org> <20070804164457.GH25704@nasby.net> <46B4B624.70700@hagander.net> <20070804172833.GO25704@nasby.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200708/112 X-Sequence-Number: 11682 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. -- * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD