I have quickly put together a mini-CAPTCHA system that tries to thwart the SPAMbots that have been going around defacing thousands of Wikis.

You can see how it works by trying to edit the SandBox page in the MozTips Wiki. (Please do not experiment on other pages in the Wiki.)

This is a patch for the Tavi Wiki system, but it can probably be adapted for other systems.

Update:

I have modified the patch so that the previewing functionality should work again. There is the possibility to remove some duplicated code from this patch. I will try to consolidate the changes and incorporate them into a new patch.

Caution:
Please test this patch locally before installing it on your production system.

You can download the patch here:
http://www.moztips.com/code/wikipatch/

Please let me know if you find any bugs.

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