TinWiki.org:CAPTCHA

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A little project: gathering CAPTCHA information

I wasn't quite sure where to put a project for collecting info on how to possibly implement (if that's what it's called..) CAPTCHA in tinWiki. If you're wondering, CAPTCHA is that test where a poster is required to read a partly scrambled image of a word and then type the word in, in order to prevent automatic spam bots from posting or editing.
It is indeed possible to install the CAPTCHA feature in MediaWiki wikis (that's the software used by tinWiki and many other wikis, including Wikipedia which MediaWiki was originally designed for). The question is, however, how to get it installed here. Appearantly CAPTCHA has already been attempted installed in tinWiki, but without success. So maybe it's a good idea to look into precisely how is could be done, so a second attempt might have better chances of succeeding, if more information is collected and readily available as to how install this spam prevention feature.
It seems a lot of what MediaWiki is about, has to do with PHP. I don't know any PHP, but I think that it is a kind of programming language or something like that. (The "System messages", which are a method of adjusting some more or less central parts in the wiki here, seem to really be PHP, since the System messages page has an option of viewing the PHP "behind" the normal view of the page.)
I'll collect info under this line as I find it

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  • Manual:Upgrading to 1.11 <= also general upgrading info
  • "PHP 5 support has been required since MediaWiki 1.7 - if you are using an older version of PHP and cannot upgrade then you should use MediaWiki 1.6.10."
  • "MySQL 4 support has been required since MediaWiki 1.6 - if you are using an older version of MySQL and cannot upgrade then you should use MediaWiki 1.5.8."
  • Extension:ConfirmEdit - MediaWiki
    • The ConfirmEdit extension enables a very simple text Captcha that will probably catch most bots. It was designed after MediaWiki 1.5
    • The ConfirmEdit extension requires MediaWiki 1.6.0+.
  • Manual:Combating spam - MediaWiki
  • test
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