Comments on: Got Captcha? Antispam on AjaxPatterns http://softwareas.com/got-captcha-antispam-on-ajaxpatterns Mahemoff's Podcast/Blog - Web, Programming, Usability from the Author of 'Ajax Design Patterns' (AjaxPatterns.org) Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:06:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mahemoff http://softwareas.com/got-captcha-antispam-on-ajaxpatterns/comment-page-1#comment-4934 mahemoff Fri, 26 May 2006 11:13:53 +0000 http://www.softwareas.com/got-captcha-antispam-on-ajaxpatterns#comment-4934 <p>Hi Andrew, Good to hear from you :-). Hadn't come across Ruse. For other wikis I have planned, I will definitely consider it, as antispam is just something mediawiki has never dealt with effectively, cleaning up is a real pain.</p> <p>Mediawiki does have one major factor in its favour, which is familiarity. With wikipedia on the way to becoming the 2nd most popular site on the web, people instantly see a site that looks like wikipedia and they know its a wiki, how it works etc. Basically, wikipedia==wiki to most people. To be fair, that doesn't apply to most people who'd consider updating an Ajax wiki, but it's still a more comfortable interface which invites changes more easily.</p> <p>For AjaxPatterns, it's probably impractical due to porting issues - it took about 3 weeks to port to Docbook for the book. But thanks for pointing it out, this could be brilliant for other projects.</p> Hi Andrew, Good to hear from you :-) . Hadn’t come across Ruse. For other wikis I have planned, I will definitely consider it, as antispam is just something mediawiki has never dealt with effectively, cleaning up is a real pain.

Mediawiki does have one major factor in its favour, which is familiarity. With wikipedia on the way to becoming the 2nd most popular site on the web, people instantly see a site that looks like wikipedia and they know its a wiki, how it works etc. Basically, wikipedia==wiki to most people. To be fair, that doesn’t apply to most people who’d consider updating an Ajax wiki, but it’s still a more comfortable interface which invites changes more easily.

For AjaxPatterns, it’s probably impractical due to porting issues – it took about 3 weeks to port to Docbook for the book. But thanks for pointing it out, this could be brilliant for other projects.

]]> By: Andrew http://softwareas.com/got-captcha-antispam-on-ajaxpatterns/comment-page-1#comment-4927 Andrew Fri, 26 May 2006 00:21:35 +0000 http://www.softwareas.com/got-captcha-antispam-on-ajaxpatterns#comment-4927 <p>Probably not an option, but have you considered changing the wiki software? The reason I ask is I saw a post the other day talking about a new Ruby-based wiki called "Ruse" that has features explicitly designed for spam protection. Have a look at the demo. Might be worth checking out.</p> <p>http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/RubyGardenBeta.red</p> <p>Andrew.</p> Probably not an option, but have you considered changing the wiki software? The reason I ask is I saw a post the other day talking about a new Ruby-based wiki called “Ruse” that has features explicitly designed for spam protection. Have a look at the demo. Might be worth checking out.

http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/RubyGardenBeta.red

Andrew.

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