What the Wiki Committee did in July

[aethel]

For those who are not subscribed to the otw_news community, you can read the Fanlore section of the OTW's July newsletter here. Here is a modified and updated version of the Wiki Committee news:

This month we implemented ReCaptcha with the help of Systems to battle the spambots. Unfortunately, it didn't work as well as we hoped (details here), so we're back to looking for other options.

Wiki has two new members who volunteered to help us fight against spam and upgrade our version of mediawiki: Welcome, Emufarmers and Phoenix!

We are also happy to welcome three new Fanlore gardeners: Sparcicle, Espresso Addict, and Greenygal.

Our second big project, the forum, is still under construction and looks better every day.

Comments

[tuuulia]

I'm not so familiar with Captcha programs, so I can't say what is the best program and what's not. I think it was mostly Systems who decided the program at the time... I'm so new staffer that I'm not actually sure. But now we have two people in our committee who knows more about these and we are searching a better solution.

We know it's annoying, but just hang on there hopefully soon we can say bye to spammers for good (: