Extension talk:QuestyCaptcha

Do not support mediawiki 1.18
it shows Warning: preg_match [function.preg-match]: Empty regular expression in /home/public_html/wiki/includes/Linker.php on line 1529 in my wiki.

Oh yes!
Thanks a lot. That should be very secure :) --Subfader 12:18, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

oh no!
the download for 1.15.x doesn't contain QuestyCaptcha.php
 * I could confirm this. Ive used 1.16x instead, it seems to work --84.171.29.220 08:56, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, copying the Questy* files from 1.16 into the version for 1.13 (which also doesn't have them) works as well.

Spam getting past QuestyCaptcha
Hi,

To my great surprise, I'm still getting a few spam edits! I can't find anyone talking about spam getting past QuestyCaptcha, so I thought this might be worth mentioning here. My daily spam is reduced from more than 50 to around 3, so I'm a happy user and I recommend QuestyCaptcha, but I'm puzzled by the trickle of spam that persists.

I guess this means there's a human somewhere in the world targeting my site, which is surprising since my site isn't all that big: en.swpat.org. But if it's a human, I wonder why they so rarely beat the captcha - maybe there's a distributed network of people and only some have sufficient English?

I set QuestyCaptcha up with these two questions:
 * What swims in the sea? (four letters) -> fish
 * Which wooly farm animal says baaaaa? -> sheep

Account creation and all edits require passing a captcha, but logged in users are exempt. I've had it installed for three days and there've been two spam pages created by IP addresses, three spam accounts created, and three pages created by those spam accounts.

(To see the spam edits, you have to show bot edits - I use RecentChangesCleanup to tag spam as bot edits) Ciaran 23:07, 3 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Four months later, my spam is down again from 3 per day to 5 per week. I guess some spammers have removed my site from their lists of spammable wikis. Ciaran 12:19, 29 January 2012 (UTC)