Re: [Monotone-devel] ikiwiki

[William Uther]

On 20/06/2008, at 2:25 AM, Thomas Keller wrote:

> Hi Hendrik!
>
> address@hidden schrieb:
> > > sufficient - if of course there is some captcha in-place which  
> > > prevents automated patch sending...
> > If you're going to have a captcha ... I think it's the Univerity of  
> > Illinois library that provides a free captcha service.  They're in  
> > toe pocess of digitizing their entire collection, and they use the  
> > words and phrases that their OCR systems fail on as a source of  
> > captchas.  Apparently is's quite effective at weedind out bots, and  
> > not hard on real human beings.  And it helps them digitize their  
> > library.

Its Carnegie Mellon.

> > I found it following links from googling (or wikipeding) CAPTCHA.   
> > Didn't keep the link.
>
> I think you refer to re-captcha [0] and indeed this would be a very  
> nice service to use here. I've looked over ikiwiki's plugins today  
> and did not found something which provides what I want right from  
> the start, but maybe the editdiff [1] plugin is a good starting  
> point for a plugin hack...
>
>
> [0] http://recaptcha.net/
> [1] http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/editdiff/

I wrote most of a recaptcha plugin for ikiwiki over the weekend.  It  
is available here:

http://ikiwiki.info/todo/require_CAPTCHA_to_edit/

The plugin puts the CAPTCHA on the login page.  I was hoping to use it  
with the OpenID login so that if you use OpenID and fill in the  
CAPTCHA then you can edit the page.  It currently works with the  
passwordauth plugin (where is isn't amazingly useful), but not with  
the OpenID plugin (which bastardises their form system to make OpenID  
work).

Be well,

Will        :-}