For the longest time we’ve been using a fairly basic captcha software to prevent robots from signing up for accounts on the Battlestar Wiki. This has changed.
We now use a captcha service provided by “reCaptcha“, which can be integrated into any MediaWiki painlessly. Essentially, the captcha is graphical (or by sound for the visually impaired).
If you wish to set this up on your own MediaWiki-run wiki/site, the instructions are here.
The service is active across all wikis. Any problems should be reported to me.
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This is great. I have banned/deleted some spam account/articles on ZH wiki.
This would help much.
I’m aware of the issue. The basic captcha we used was, essentially, a mathematical one that could be solved by a clever-enough automated program.
It will indeed help.
zh still needs to be rebuild…… darn programing project!
And doing a service too! Wonderful!
We try to help out other projects along the way… and ReCaptcha is a very interesting way of serving two different purposes.