Tiki Reference Guide  »  Security  »  Spam Protection

Spam Protection tab

Overview

Use this tab to enable anti-spam CAPTCHAs and protect email address links.

To Access

From the Security Admin page, click the Spam Protection tab.

Note

When enabled, the following Tiki features are protected:

• wiki page edits (starting in 1.9)
• wiki page comments (starting in 1.9)
• forum posts and replies (starting in 1.9)
• tracker item comments (starting in 2.0)
• freetags (starting in 2.0)
• calendar items (starting in 3.4, 4.2, and 5.0)
• newsletter subscriptions (starting in 3.4, 4.2, and 5.0)

7.x, 6.x

Spam protection

Field	Description	Default
CAPTCHA
Anonymous editors must input anti-bot code	Adds a CAPTCHA to any input from an Anonymous visitor (such as comments, wiki pages, and site registration.	Enabled
Word length...	Number of characters in the CAPTCHA image	6
Width...	Width, in pixels, of the CAPTCHA image	180
Level of noise	Specifies how difficult the CAPTCHA is to read. Higher number is more secure, but more difficult to read.	100
Use ReCaptcha	Instead of using the default Zend_Captcha implementation, Tiki can use CAPTCHAs from ReCaptcha	Disabled
Protect email...	Tiki will obfuscate email addresses, making it harder for spambots to steal email address that are displayed in pages, forums, blogs, and so on.	Enabled
Add "rel=nofollow"...	Adds nofollow parameter to all external links prevent robots and spiders from collecting external pages. See http://dev.tiki.org/wish1583 for more information.	Enabled
Banning System	Enables the Banning feature. Allows you to ban visitors by username and IP address	Disabled