Re: [Monotone-devel] ikiwiki

[hendrik]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:35:37PM +1000, William Uther wrote:
> On 20/06/2008, at 2:25 AM, Thomas Keller wrote:
> 
> >Hi Hendrik!
> >
> >address@hidden schrieb:
> >>>sufficient - if of course there is some captcha in-place which  
> >>>prevents automated patch sending...
> >>If you're going to have a captcha ... I think it's the Univerity of  
> >>Illinois library that provides a free captcha service.  They're in  
> >>toe pocess of digitizing their entire collection, and they use the  
> >>words and phrases that their OCR systems fail on as a source of  
> >>captchas.  Apparently is's quite effective at weedind out bots, and  
> >>not hard on real human beings.  And it helps them digitize their  
> >>library.
> 
> Its Carnegie Mellon.
> 
> >>I found it following links from googling (or wikipeding) CAPTCHA.   
> >>Didn't keep the link.
> >
> >I think you refer to re-captcha [0] and indeed this would be a very  
> >nice service to use here. I've looked over ikiwiki's plugins today  
> >and did not found something which provides what I want right from  
> >the start, but maybe the editdiff [1] plugin is a good starting  
> >point for a plugin hack...
> >
> >
> >[0] http://recaptcha.net/
> >[1] http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/editdiff/
> 
> I wrote most of a recaptcha plugin for ikiwiki over the weekend.  It  
> is available here:
> 
> http://ikiwiki.info/todo/require_CAPTCHA_to_edit/
> 
> The plugin puts the CAPTCHA on the login page.  I was hoping to use it  
> with the OpenID login so that if you use OpenID and fill in the  
> CAPTCHA then you can edit the page.  It currently works with the  
> passwordauth plugin (where is isn't amazingly useful), but not with  
> the OpenID plugin (which bastardises their form system to make OpenID  
> work).
> 
> Be well,
> 
> Will        :-}
> 

Glad you've done this.  I am really of CAPTCHA's that are harder 
for people to guess than for computers.

-- hendrik

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