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LRFAvi <a href= General Wiki Comments = == Spam problem ==  : How about creating a simple field like "Write `Context' in the textbox" for registeration. It will make it slightly more difficult for the bots, and is not too difficult to implement --[[User:Adityam|Aditya]] :: if someone sends me a patch against the current mediawiki software... I'd be happy to apply it to this wiki. BTW: I have blocked the IP-address from where the last stupid edits came from (thanks, Taco, for reverting all those edits). (69.205.189.198) ::: There are two options (1) Do not allow user to change anything without loggin in. One can create a pretty vague loginid if he/she wants to remain anonymous. See [http://testcgcpvkvoedvv.wikipedia.orgcom/wiki">cgcpvkvoedvv</Main_Page] You need to create an account to change data and ceate new account gives you a captcha. I do not have any experience of managing wikimedia. But from what I have read on its documentations>, it is possible to disable anonymous edits [url=http://metayaqirieoznou.wikimedia.orgcom/wiki]yaqirieoznou[/Preventing_Access#Disable_anonymous_editsurl]. However this goes against the spirit of wikis in general.(2) When a person has not logged in, give him a captcha or a value to fill in a form. This should be doable manually. The easiest way that I can think of is to check the word with javascript before actually submitting data. Another way can be to check it within the php script (Don't know enough php to see how to do this). [link=http::: So my question basically boils down to this//rwiwhjjftfsu. Is disabling anonymous post and requiring login (with a captcha) not an option? If so, I will play around with authentication in webforms a little and get back with more specific suggestions. --[[User:Adityam|Adityacom/]] :::: Actually, I went through all the recent changes, and it was vandalism rather than spam. I do not think that there is any way to stop a delibrate deletion of content by a user. ::::: In forum software it is not abnormal to see a system where the first X posts of a user require approval by a moderator. That would work nicely against this sort of vandalism, but I do not have even a remote idea how that would work out on a wiki. rwiwhjjftfsu[[User:Taco|Taco/link]] :::::: Somehow I still think that the best solution is to continue using the spam-blacklist and manual vandalism reverting. In my opinion, this is not that much of a deal. --[[Userhttp:Patrick Gundlach|pg]] == GIFs == Is it forbidden to upload GIFs? I wanted to upload one for the Animation page (I'm not sure if that's a good idea anyway; it would be used to get a feeling of what approximately Adobe Reader is capable to do/limited to)/qwaxueqqtzgn. I get a warning <i>".gif" is not a recommended image file format.<com/i>, but then nothing happened any further. --Thanks, [[User:Mojca Miklavec|Mojca]]