Re: [HacDC:Admin] Fwd: RSS-Feed of HacDC Wiki

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Jan 13, 2015, 3:41:24 AM1/13/15

to Katie Bechtold, Wiki, HacDC

So the only captcha question we have is
'question' =>'The second letter of each word in this sentence.', 'answer' => 'heefaonhe'

The CAPTCHA plugin we use is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit

The module we use is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha

I'm thinking we need more questions, maybe add something dynamic. Use a word that changes like a date/time or space open closed status as list on hacdc.org.

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:02 AM, ITechGeek <I...@itechgeek.com> wrote:

I thought someone had worked on that. I've got this email added to my task list and someone will get to this hopefully soon.

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Katie Bechtold <bokun...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys - I'm not sure why this person wrote to me -- I agree with the new-user announcements making the RSS feed really difficult to use, but since they're spam users I'd suggest we set something up to keep fake users from registering in the first place.

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From: Irgendeiner <irgen...@gmx.ch>
Date: Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:21 AM
Subject: RSS-Feed of HacDC Wiki
To: bokun...@gmail.com

Hi Katie

The RSS-Feed of the Wiki is useful for those interested in changes of content.
However, there are tons of messages announcing new users.

This might also be interesting for somebody, but could you organize a splitting into two different feeds? Thank you.

Kind regards from Switzerland
irgendeiner

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Katie http://about.me/katiebechtold

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Jan 13, 2015, 3:51:19 AM1/13/15

to Katie Bechtold, Wiki, HacDC

I changed the CAPTCHAs to:
$wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' =>'What is our zipcode? (Our address is located on http://hacdc.org/)', 'answer' => '20010' );
$wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' =>'Are we in NW, NE, SE, or SW portion of DC? (Our address is located on http://hacdc.org/)', 'answer' => 'NW' );
$wgCaptchaQuestions[] = array( 'question' =>'What city are we located in (Just city, not state)? (Our address is located on http://hacdc.org/)', 'answer' => 'Washington' );