Re: wiki.erights.org and anonymous edits

On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:04, Toby Murray wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 08:37 -0500, Kevin Reid wrote:
>> * With anonymous editing, they just edit and we can block their
>> address and prohibit account creation from it. Without anonymous
>> editing, they create accounts (yes, there are spambots that do that)
>> and Wikipedia hides their IP address (from me, at least), so we can't
>> block anything but their throwaway account (which persists forever in
>> the wiki database).
>
> I agree completely that these arguments must be considered. The  
> reason I
> gathered the data was to try to work out what weight to give these
> arguments. The evidence (to me) suggests that
...
> * reCAPTCHA breaking spambots are not a current threat.

Er, isn't the wiki currently set up to require reCAPTCHA for anonymous  
edits?

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>