Marspedia talk:Captcha

Greetings,

Are these captchas already installed on Lunarpedia? If so, why are we still suffering from spambots? What can we do to improve the effectiveness of the captchas? Are there install instructions somewhere?

Thanks Charles F. Radley 19:50, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Charles, as far as I know the regular set of captcha triggers are active on both Marspedia and Lunarpedia, but these triggers only address the following events:

• 'edit'
• 'create'
• 'addurl'
• 'createaccount'
• 'badlogin'

The new trigger 'gibberish' needs to be installed. I am not familiar with the wikimedia software installation process, but I think the green parts just need to be inserted in the files ConfirmEdit.php, ConfirmEdit.i18n.php and ConfirmEdit_body.php respectively. Someone with file write access permission on CGI level must do that, I suppose. --Rfc 09:05, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Rfc.

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I wasn't aware that the 'gibberish' trigger was available, it wasn't when I originally installed ConfirmEdit. I see the latest version has an additional file. I hope to look into installing the new version this weekend, but please bear with me, I need to upgrade all 5 wikis before I proceed to upgrading ConfirmEdit. Also, depending on the requirements, I can't promise to get the new version of ConfirmEdit to work. As it is, we're going to lose our US-EN spell checker.

- Mdelaney 06:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi again Rfc,

This has now been implemented. Let me know whether it's working properly.

For future reference, when posting code to any mediawiki site, it's best to enclose the code inside <nowiki></nowiki> tags so the wiki doesn't misinterpret the code. This caused me a little trouble when I added your modifications as some characters were missing from the code I pasted to the file. The last green section isn't displaying properly in the wiki, the line

if( $section == '' ) { // do the check only for whole page edits

is showing up as

if( $section == ) { // do the check only for whole page edits

It took me a little while to spot that problem ;-)

-- Mdelaney 21:45, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Oops, sorry. I tried the nowiki-tag before, but I was not able to mark the new parts green this way. Thanks for installation. Unfortunately, the gibberish trigger is superimposed by the edit trigger, making it impossible to test. -- Rfc 10:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)