[tei-council] captcha for the wiki?

[James Cummings]

On 22/03/11 20:15, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> Poor Piotr checks his feed reader more frequently than I do, meaning he
> usually gets to undoing spam edits and blocking spammers before I do.
> We do need to come up with a solution here.
>
> How about this question:
>
> Which of the child elements of teiHeader is required?
>
> We should accept either of these responses:
>
> <fileDesc>
> fileDesc

Depend on whether the chosen system is capable, I would suggest that we 
accept anything that has 'fileDesc' (even in a case-insensitive manner?) 
in it.

Another possibility is to have questions with multiple radio button 
answers?  So if along with fileDesc it listed a bunch of things that 
aren't children of teiHeader...  Of course the problem with this type of 
thing (unlike your suggestion) is that it means the spamming script can 
quess correctly if it keeps trying.

I'm wondering whether knowledge of the TEI is the right thing to test 
for contributions to the TEI wiki?  I know that seems self-evident. But 
I wouldn't want to stop contributions from someone who knows very little 
about the TEI, but wrote a useful XSLT script cuz someone gave him some 
TEI data once.

Isn't what we want to test that they are a) human and b) not evil 
spammers?  There are lots of ways to test a) ... not many ways to test b.

-James


>
> On 3/13/2011 1:38 PM, David Sewell wrote:
>> 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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