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:: 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://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access#Disable_anonymous_edits]. 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).
::: So my question basically boils down to this. 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|Aditya]]
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