[wplug-plan] reCaptcha for preventing spam

[Michael H. Semcheski]

I sent message with a similar intent to the wplug-internet mailing list, and
haven't heard anything back.  I think I'm on that committee.  I don't know
who else is, or if there is anyone else on the mailing list.

I've setup a few media-wiki's, and there was another request for a calendar
plugin.  I could give some of my time to this.

I don't know where to go for access to the machine.  I don't know who to
talk to about that.

Mike

On 5/30/07, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> If you look at the wiki today, you'll see that I just had to kill a
> pretty decent amount of spam.  That sucks.  I hate spam.  It makes our
> wiki less valuable and takes personal time to get rid of the spam.
>
> As you may have heard, Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon's resident genius
> and the developer of the captcha, has recently released the recaptcha
> project.  Basically, with this project, you solve two captchas, one a
> real captcha, and one a word that OCR couldn't get from some book from
> the internet archive.  After it reaches consensus on the second word it
> concludes that must be the word and the book gets better.
>
> Plus, it's got a dead sexy interface and wonderful plugins for lots of
> platforms, including MediaWiki.  I suggest that we utilize the recaptcha
> project for the wiki.  Heck, I'll even install it if someone gives me
> access rights to it.
>
> http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/
>
> --Patrick
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