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   1  ConfirmEdit extension for MediaWiki
   2  
   3  This extension provides various CAPTCHA tools for MediaWiki, to allow
   4  for protection against spambots and other automated tools.
   5  
   6  For more information, see the extension homepage at:
   7  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
   8  
   9  == Overview ==
  10  
  11  The following modules are included in ConfirmEdit:
  12  
  13  * SimpleCaptcha - users have to solve an arithmetic math problem
  14  * MathCaptcha - users have to solve a math problem that's displayed as
  15  an image
  16  * FancyCaptcha - users have to identify a series of characters, displayed
  17  in a stylized way
  18  * QuestyCaptcha - users have to answer a question, out of a series of
  19  questions defined by the administrator(s)
  20  * ReCaptcha - users have to identify a series of characters, either
  21  visually or audially, from a widget provided by the reCAPTCHA service
  22  * Asirra - users have to identify the cats in a set of photos of cats
  23  and dogs, from a widget provided by the Microsoft Asirra service
  24  
  25  == License ==
  26  
  27  ConfirmEdit is published under the GPL license.
  28  
  29  == Authors ==
  30  
  31  The main framework, and the SimpleCaptcha and FancyCaptcha modules, were
  32  written by Brion Vibber.
  33  
  34  The MathCaptcha module was written by Rob Church.
  35  
  36  The QuestyCaptcha module was written by Benjamin Lees.
  37  
  38  The reCAPTCHA module was written by Mike Crawford and Ben Maurer.
  39  
  40  The Asirra module was written by Bachsau.
  41  
  42  Additional maintenance work was done by Yaron Koren.
  43  
  44  == Changelog ==
  45  
  46  = Version 1.2
  47  Fixes bug 46132 - ConfirmEdit fatal error when using MathCaptcha and current Math extension.
  48  See <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46132>.