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ConfirmEdit extension for MediaWiki
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This extension provides various CAPTCHA tools for MediaWiki, to allow
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for protection against spambots and other automated tools.
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For more information, see the extension homepage at:
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http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
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== Overview ==
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The following modules are included in ConfirmEdit:
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* SimpleCaptcha - users have to solve an arithmetic math problem
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* MathCaptcha - users have to solve a math problem that's displayed as
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an image
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* FancyCaptcha - users have to identify a series of characters, displayed
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in a stylized way
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* QuestyCaptcha - users have to answer a question, out of a series of
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questions defined by the administrator(s)
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* ReCaptcha - users have to identify a series of characters, either
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visually or audially, from a widget provided by the reCAPTCHA service
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* Asirra - users have to identify the cats in a set of photos of cats
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and dogs, from a widget provided by the Microsoft Asirra service
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== License ==
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ConfirmEdit is published under the GPL license.
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== Authors ==
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The main framework, and the SimpleCaptcha and FancyCaptcha modules, were
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written by Brion Vibber.
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The MathCaptcha module was written by Rob Church.
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The QuestyCaptcha module was written by Benjamin Lees.
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The reCAPTCHA module was written by Mike Crawford and Ben Maurer.
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The Asirra module was written by Bachsau.
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Additional maintenance work was done by Yaron Koren.
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== Changelog ==
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= Version 1.2
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Fixes bug 46132 - ConfirmEdit fatal error when using MathCaptcha and current Math extension.
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See <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46132>.
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