From markc at renta.net  Sat Oct  6 07:46:58 2007
From: markc at renta.net (Mark Constable)
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 07:46:58 +1000
Subject: [Alsa] Updated codebase, added ConfirmEdit extension
Message-ID: <200710060746.58461.markc@renta.net>

MediaWiki code updated to 1.12alpha and now using the ConfirmEdit
extension which uses a Captcha for logins and when adding any
offsite links to a page.

 http://alsa.opensrc.org/Special:Version

It'll be interesting to see if the spam user registrations stop.

***

There is a list of extensions here so if any of these seem like
they could be useful then I'm happy to try them/it out.

 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix

This one could be useful but I'm inclined to use dedicated forum
software like PunBB (coming soon, I hope)...

 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DPLforum

This one could also be useful as I would like to encourage
screencasts and I have arranged for storage space that won't
impact the bandwidth used by the server this wiki is on...

 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler

And this one...

 http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID

--markc