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Jack Phoenix (talk | contribs) (thoughts regarding (re)CAPTCHA(s)) |
Zhuyifei1999 (talk | contribs) (→Account creation protection: Some irc chat log with Emufarmers) |
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#::I guess that's Jack's opinion. --[[YiFei]] | <small>[[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]</small> 04:55, 27 August 2013 (UTC) | #::I guess that's Jack's opinion. --[[YiFei]] | <small>[[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]</small> 04:55, 27 August 2013 (UTC) | ||
#:::Indeed so. I'm inclined to believe that a properly configured [[mw:Extension:QuestyCaptcha]] with multiple questions that are simple enough (i.e. "What is the first name of Mr. Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia?" or the classic, "What is this site's name?") is far more effective than reCAPTCHA. Just because it says "by Google" on the box doesn't mean that it's automatically good, you know.<br />True enough, QuestyCaptcha has some flaws too (such as the lack of an admin panel of any kind, but I'm hoping we could eventually work around that), but the core concept is far more fascinating and harder for spambot operators to crack, I believe. Cracking a (re)CAPTCHA doesn't require any real thinking whatsoever, whereas topic-specific questions might be really obvious for humans trying to register but not so much for spambots and their automated spamming software.<br />Naturally it should be remembered that no matter what, some will always slip past the automated mechanisms, and that's why we have administrators — to clean up after these spambots and block the associated accounts, IP addresses, etc. --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 07:26, 27 August 2013 (UTC) | #:::Indeed so. I'm inclined to believe that a properly configured [[mw:Extension:QuestyCaptcha]] with multiple questions that are simple enough (i.e. "What is the first name of Mr. Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia?" or the classic, "What is this site's name?") is far more effective than reCAPTCHA. Just because it says "by Google" on the box doesn't mean that it's automatically good, you know.<br />True enough, QuestyCaptcha has some flaws too (such as the lack of an admin panel of any kind, but I'm hoping we could eventually work around that), but the core concept is far more fascinating and harder for spambot operators to crack, I believe. Cracking a (re)CAPTCHA doesn't require any real thinking whatsoever, whereas topic-specific questions might be really obvious for humans trying to register but not so much for spambots and their automated spamming software.<br />Naturally it should be remembered that no matter what, some will always slip past the automated mechanisms, and that's why we have administrators — to clean up after these spambots and block the associated accounts, IP addresses, etc. --[[User:Jack Phoenix|Jack Phoenix]] ([[User talk:Jack Phoenix|talk]]) 07:26, 27 August 2013 (UTC) | ||
#:::: Some irc chat log with Emufarmers: | |||
#:::: (07:36:43) <Emufarmers> it's hard to make questions that are meaningful but not potentially confusing or exclusory | |||
#:::: (07:37:53) <Emufarmers> just having a trivial one like this keeps out most bots simply because they don't know how to deal with it, even if they could easily send it to a human | |||
#:::: (07:38:47) <Emufarmers> (it would also be easy enough for them to just do that and compile a database of answers, but, fortunately, most don't seem to be there yet) | |||
#:::: (07:40:42) <Emufarmers> depends whether saying "if you can't google, you can't register" is desirable or not | |||
#:::: --[[YiFei]] | <small>[[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]</small> 08:06, 27 August 2013 (UTC) | |||
#<s>[[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit]] as MathCaptcha (needs [[mw:Extension:Math]] installed, which is easy with shell access on Linux (@Emufarmers: ask me if you have problems with [[mw:Extension:Math]])) --[[YiFei]] | <small>[[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]</small> 16:06, 21 August 2013 (UTC)</s> | #<s>[[mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit]] as MathCaptcha (needs [[mw:Extension:Math]] installed, which is easy with shell access on Linux (@Emufarmers: ask me if you have problems with [[mw:Extension:Math]])) --[[YiFei]] | <small>[[User talk:Zhuyifei1999|talk]]</small> 16:06, 21 August 2013 (UTC)</s> | ||