[Hamara-devel] Spam extensions for mediawiki.

[shirish शिरीष]

On 3/28/15, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/28/15, Vikas Tara <vik at hamaralinux.org> wrote:
>> On 28/03/15 13:43, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> <snipped>
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
>> Most of the captcha types seem to offer low effectiveness at stopping
>> spam. Do you have a view on which one to use?
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist
>> Installed
>
> This is tricky thing to manage. If you put a high wall, then you
> prevent most users to come in.
>
> For e.g. there are many ways in which one can have new users.
>
> One way which I have enjoyed is where you have an image which is cut
> into pieces and then you have to put it together like a small jigsaw
> puzzle, but this leads to accessibility issues besides having people
> having spatial understanding and recognition. I have seen few where
> colors are asked but if you are color-blind then that doesn't work or
> don't know a specific shade/name of color than you are out.
>
> Within the ConfirmEdit there are quite a few different ways to do
> this, one of the more interesting ones would be configuring
> Quesycaptcha
>
> For e.g. (this I saw in a forum - What is the output of "date -u
> +%V`uname`|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"? ) or use questions similar to
> http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas/
> . That should raise the bar quite a bit.
>
> Another Extension which I forgot to add is
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount - This would
> help in combating spam.
>
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TorBlock
>> Should we block tor users? I guess some people will use tor to hack /
>> spam sites - but could do with some views on this.
>
> If it was a social content site or some other place where
> user-generated content could potentially be used to generate content
> which might be harmful to the person who is creating it (something
> like wiki leaks or Edward Snowdem kinda stories/events) torblock would
> have been out of place but this is a technical wiki site. So it
> doesn't make sense. What is required is just an e-mail address which
> can be verified + some captcha questions as outlined above. Apart from
> that people can be as creative as they wanna get (in
> user-names/handles/gravatar etc.). As far as IP addresses and how much
> history of the IP addresses should be kept, that would probably
> involve what the IT Act says where the server/business is located.

Found another interesting captcha based way which potentially could
keep spammers at bay, see https://www.funcaptcha.co/

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