[tei-council] captcha for the wiki?

[David Sewell]

Heh. The trick would be finding questions with unambiguous answers that 
anyone familiar with the TEI Guidelines should be able to answer, but 
that would require a certain amount of research beyond 5 seconds of 
Google for anyone else.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, James Cummings wrote:

> Re: question
>
> Might be fun. So the answer is teiHeader and facsimile .... right?
> James
>
>
>
> James Cummings, University of Oxford
> (from phone)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Hawkins [kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info]
> Received: Sunday, 13 Mar 2011, 16:23
> To: TEI Council [tei-council at lists.village.Virginia.EDU]
> Subject: Re: [tei-council] captcha for the wiki?
>
> 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!)
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