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Currently we observe very special spam attacs -- only IPs -- that place single nonsense words in existing pages. [[User:John Stanton|John]] stated that we are not the only wiki that ist annoyed. They are testing the terrain before putting in real spam, said [[User:Felix|Felix]]. | Currently we observe very special spam attacs -- only IPs -- that place single nonsense words in existing pages. [[User:John Stanton|John]] stated that we are not the only wiki that ist annoyed. They are testing the terrain before putting in real spam, said [[User:Felix|Felix]]. | ||
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:: Um, yes, that's the one. We already have it integrated :) But currently it only shows up when an edit adds new links. I'd guess that's the reason why we haven't seen much actual link spam: it takes a human to overcome the captcha. But having to clean up lots of gibberish isn't less annoying. | :: Um, yes, that's the one. We already have it integrated :) But currently it only shows up when an edit adds new links. I'd guess that's the reason why we haven't seen much actual link spam: it takes a human to overcome the captcha. But having to clean up lots of gibberish isn't less annoying. | ||
:::I find it a good idea to have the captcha active on every anon edit (if it's not too hard to decipher for humans). I think John is the one who has access to the config settings. --[[Wolf Peuker|Wolf]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 14:51, 25 October 2007 (EDT) | :::I find it a good idea to have the captcha active on every anon edit (if it's not too hard to decipher for humans). I think John is the one who has access to the config settings. --[[Wolf Peuker|Wolf]] | <small>[[User talk:Peu|talk]]</small> 14:51, 25 October 2007 (EDT) | ||
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