[ILUG] Re: wiki software

[Rory Browne]

> 
> > My point was that login accounts aren't the only protection against
> > spambots, and they aren't necessarly the best.
> 
> Without them, my experience is that you're overwhelmed.  (As mentioned,
> you may enjoy a fool's paradise of some months' duration until the bots
> all find you, but then you get clobbered.)
That few months may be all we need to accumulate the momentum of being
a sufficient size that users will be willing to jump through the hoops
that they wouldn't have been willing to jump through for a small
five-page wiki.

> 
> > On the otherhand, requiring login accounts will not necessarly deter
> > spammers.
> 
> Indeed, we call that "necessary but not sufficient":  I would also use
> captcha (http://www.captcha.net/).  Human spammers can still run that
> gauntlet (gaining brief access, that you then terminate), but _spambots_
> cannot.

Captcha.status == agreed; 
Logins.necessary.status = disagreed;
Logins.necessary.disagreement.justification = wikipedia;

> 
> Thus:  Never try to outwork a spambot.
> 
> > I just think we should start off with anti-crap techniques that don't
> > bother or hassle our potential users.
> 
> Recognising reality indeed has disadvantages.  ;->  The only consolation
> is that the alternative's worse.
The reality is that wikipedia has developed into an encyclopedia with
over 566k articles, meaning that it is approximately a factor of 5
times larger than the next largest Encyclopedia(Britannica). Another
reality is that I've seen very little(personally none) noise on
wikipedia.

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