I had good results with QueryCaptcha as well. Do you have experience with it? I wonder how it compares with QuestyCaptcha.
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:29 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Bernhard , > > > I have found questycaptcha to be the most successful at blocking > bots from adding users. Basically it asks a question such as "Where is > Tokyo?" and the answer is "Japan". This has been working pretty well but > lately I have noticed that some bots are still getting through so I might > need to change my question. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha > > > Adrian > > > ________________________________ > From: "Scheid, Bernhard" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 3:36 AM > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] spam users > > Hi, > > I am running a couple of relatively small academic Wikis mainly for > educational uses at university. Thus there is relatively little traffic > apart from course time. Nevertheless, some two years ago I noticed more and > more spam and thus reduced editing rights first to registered users, then > to users of a special group that need my personal acknowledgement. Now, in > recent months there is an increasing number of new users (robots?) > obviously attempting to write spam which they do not do but they are kind > of spamming the lists of registered users. I could reduce the registration > rights but on the other hand I want students to register freely in order > to obtain their editing permissions. Is there a decent way to detect and > prevent harmful would-be spammers from setting up an account without > preventing that option for serious users? > > Best > > Bernhard > > > *************** > > Dr. Bernhard Scheid > > Austrian Academy of Sciences > Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia > > Apostelgasse 23 > 1030 Vienna, Austria > > Tel.: +43-1-51581 6424 > E-mail: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- ---------------------------------------- MSN Messenger: [email protected] http://www.dantas.com http://dantas.editme.com/textos http://luisdantas.zip.net "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" - Atribuído a Krishnamurti, Bodhipaksa, 28 de Dezembro de 2007 Nunca use uma solução Shojo para um problema Seinen. E se possível, nem vice-versa. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
