Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration

[Robin Green]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:53:38AM -0600, Charles Duffy wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:46 +0100, Lothar Märkle wrote:
> > Why not just add a captcha for editing a page? Still no registration is
> > necessary, and captchas are accepted.
> 
> Good call!
> 
> Anyone know what language the Wiki is written in?

MoinMoin is written in Python
http://moin.sourceforge.net/

> Freshmeat lists Free
> captcha generators written in PHP and Python:
> http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=captcha&section=projects&Go.x=0&Go.y=0
> 
> (A captcha, btw, is a "Completely Automated Public Test to tell
> Computers and Humans Apart"; the zero-cost webmail services started
> using them as spambot-repellant quite some time ago, and it seems like
> an appropriate thing for wikis to do as well).

-- 
Robin

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