[tei-council] captcha for the wiki?

[Kevin Hawkins]

On 3/13/2011 12:01 PM, David Sewell wrote:
> Does Amazon enforce their policies for Mechanical Turk, I wonder? They
> explicitly ban spamming or "disrupting or degrading the operation of any
> website or internet service"
> (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies).

It seems they don't enforce, and they may have a reason for doing so:

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2010/12/mechanical-turk-now-with-4092-spam.html

> MediaWiki allows you to create a "question captcha" where the user has
> to answer one or more questions to be allowed in. That might be
> promising: "What two elements are normally the children of the root
> 'TEI' element in a TEI P5 XML document?"

Ooo, that might help us, at least for a while.  (If I didn't know 
anything about the TEI, you'd have to pay me a lot of money to skim 
through the Guidelines to find the answer to this question!)