[tei-council] captcha for the wiki?

[Kevin Hawkins]

We're only talking about enhancing the captcha used at the point of 
creating an account on the wiki.  Once you have an account, you just 
need to look up your password!

While am evil spammer might pay someone to decipher an image, I think if 
they see a technical question, they are likely to think that they won't 
be able to find anyone who knows the answer even though we know that the 
answer to this question can be found fairly easily in the Guidelines and 
even in the Lite documentation.

If it doesn't work, we can change approaches ...

> On Mar 22, 2011, at 3:15 PM, 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
>>
>> 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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