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author | Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> | 2015-12-20 09:00:55 +0100 |
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committer | Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> | 2015-12-20 09:00:55 +0100 |
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diff --git a/extensions/ConfirmEdit/README.md b/extensions/ConfirmEdit/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..584dd337 --- /dev/null +++ b/extensions/ConfirmEdit/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ +ConfirmEdit +========= + +ConfirmEdit extension for MediaWiki + +This extension provides various CAPTCHA tools for MediaWiki, to allow +for protection against spambots and other automated tools. + +For more information, see the extension homepage at: +http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit + +### Overview + +The following modules are included in ConfirmEdit: + +* SimpleCaptcha - users have to solve an arithmetic math problem +* MathCaptcha - users have to solve a math problem that's displayed as +an image +* FancyCaptcha - users have to identify a series of characters, displayed +in a stylized way +* QuestyCaptcha - users have to answer a question, out of a series of +questions defined by the administrator(s) +* ReCaptcha - users have to identify a series of characters, either +visually or audially, from a widget provided by the reCAPTCHA service + +### License + +ConfirmEdit is published under the GPL license. + +### Authors + +The main framework, and the SimpleCaptcha and FancyCaptcha modules, were +written by Brion Vibber. + +The MathCaptcha module was written by Rob Church. + +The QuestyCaptcha module was written by Benjamin Lees. + +The reCAPTCHA module was written by Mike Crawford and Ben Maurer. + +Additional maintenance work was done by Yaron Koren. + +### Configuations Comments +```php +/** + * List of IP ranges to allow to skip the captcha, similar to the group setting: + * "$wgGroupPermission[...]['skipcaptcha'] = true" + * + * Specific IP addresses or CIDR-style ranges may be used, + * for instance: + * $wgCaptchaWhitelistIP = array('192.168.1.0/24', '10.1.0.0/16'); + */ +$wgCaptchaWhitelistIP = false; + +/** + * Actions which can trigger a captcha + * + * If the 'edit' trigger is on, *every* edit will trigger the captcha. + * This may be useful for protecting against vandalbot attacks. + * + * If using the default 'addurl' trigger, the captcha will trigger on + * edits that include URLs that aren't in the current version of the page. + * This should catch automated linkspammers without annoying people when + * they make more typical edits. + * + * The captcha code should not use $wgCaptchaTriggers, but CaptchaTriggers() + * which also takes into account per namespace triggering. + */ +$wgCaptchaTriggers = array(); +$wgCaptchaTriggers['edit'] = false; // Would check on every edit +$wgCaptchaTriggers['create'] = false; // Check on page creation. +$wgCaptchaTriggers['sendemail'] = false; // Special:Emailuser +$wgCaptchaTriggers['addurl'] = true; // Check on edits that add URLs +$wgCaptchaTriggers['createaccount'] = true; // Special:Userlogin&type=signup +$wgCaptchaTriggers['badlogin'] = true; // Special:Userlogin after failure + +/** + * You may wish to apply special rules for captcha triggering on some namespaces. + * $wgCaptchaTriggersOnNamespace[<namespace id>][<trigger>] forces an always on / + * always off configuration with that trigger for the given namespace. + * Leave unset to use the global options ($wgCaptchaTriggers). + * + * Shall not be used with 'createaccount' (it is not checked). + */ +$wgCaptchaTriggersOnNamespace = array(); + +# Example: +# $wgCaptchaTriggersOnNamespace[NS_TALK]['create'] = false; //Allow creation of talk pages without captchas. +# $wgCaptchaTriggersOnNamespace[NS_PROJECT]['edit'] = true; //Show captcha whenever editing Project pages. + +/** + * Indicate how to store per-session data required to match up the + * internal captcha data with the editor. + * + * 'CaptchaSessionStore' uses PHP's session storage, which is cookie-based + * and may fail for anons with cookies disabled. + * + * 'CaptchaCacheStore' uses $wgMemc, which avoids the cookie dependency + * but may be fragile depending on cache configuration. + */ +$wgCaptchaStorageClass = 'CaptchaSessionStore'; + +/** + * Number of seconds a captcha session should last in the data cache + * before expiring when managing through CaptchaCacheStore class. + * + * Default is a half hour. + */ +$wgCaptchaSessionExpiration = 30 * 60; + +/** + * Number of seconds after a bad login that a captcha will be shown to + * that client on the login form to slow down password-guessing bots. + * + * Has no effect if 'badlogin' is disabled in $wgCaptchaTriggers or + * if there is not a caching engine enabled. + * + * Default is five minutes. + */ +$wgCaptchaBadLoginExpiration = 5 * 60; + +/** + * Allow users who have confirmed their email addresses to post + * URL links without being harassed by the captcha. + */ +$ceAllowConfirmedEmail = false; + +/** + * Number of bad login attempts before triggering the captcha. 0 means the + * captcha is presented on the first login. + */ +$wgCaptchaBadLoginAttempts = 3; + +/** + * Regex to whitelist URLs to known-good sites... + * For instance: + * $wgCaptchaWhitelist = '#^https?://([a-z0-9-]+\\.)?(wikimedia|wikipedia)\.org/#i'; + * Local admins can define a whitelist under [[MediaWiki:captcha-addurl-whitelist]] + */ +$wgCaptchaWhitelist = false; + +/** + * Additional regexes to check for. Use full regexes; can match things + * other than URLs such as junk edits. + * + * If the new version matches one and the old version doesn't, + * toss up the captcha screen. + * + * @fixme Add a message for local admins to add items as well. + */ +$wgCaptchaRegexes = array(); +``` |