On 5/17/06, Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 22:50, Simon Osborne wrote: > And on another note, why exactly are cretinous little pricks > targeting our wiki site with spam? Is there any way to stop them? > Should we consider password protecting the main site pages?
Those are most likely robots searching the whole internet for open wikis to upload there spam to. If it doesn't happen too often then simply revert those changes. If it happens too often then one option which wouldn't require passwords is to use those challenges we are seeing nowadays everywhere, i.e. images showing distorted random text which has to be typed into a confirmation field.
I looked it up, and at present PmWiki isn't planning to incorporate a captcha scheme. :(
We could mock up our own by modifying the password request page to tell a human what the password is. For example:
"To edit this page, please enter 'letmein":"
-- Jonathan
