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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: email obfuscation on mediawiki (was: Re: update the feature plan!)
From:       Michael Pyne <mpyne () purinchu ! net>
Date:       2009-01-24 0:21:32
Message-ID: 200901231921.32509.mpyne () purinchu ! net
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On Friday 23 January 2009, Dominik Haumann wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2009, Andre Gemünd wrote:
> > Dominik Haumann schrieb:
> > > 2. obfuscate (html entities, is it mailto:<...> or can the mailto
> > > itself even be obfuscated?
> >
> > Yes, the mailto can also be encoded. Doesn't matter though, because it's
> > constant.
> > I just wanted to add that obfuscating could be done easily by a
> > mediawiki filter such as
> >
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailObfuscator (uses the ascii
> > code method)
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailAddressImage (replace
> > address with Image)
> > http://www.mcmilk.de/wiki/Wiki_EmailTag (image as well)
> >
> > Greetings
> > André
>
> All three look good. CCing danimo, as he's our admin guy :)
> I'd prefer the obfuscation and make the names clickable instead
> additionally showing the addresses as an image. Needs less space and still
> all infos are available.

I'd recommend against image-based methods based on accessibility concerns.  I 
think the ASCII-encoding method is a fine compromise.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

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font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Friday 23 January 2009, Dominik Haumann \
wrote:<br> &gt; On Thursday 22 January 2009, Andre Gemünd wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt; Dominik Haumann schrieb:<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; 2. obfuscate (html entities, is it mailto:&lt;...&gt; or can the \
mailto<br> &gt; &gt; &gt; itself even be obfuscated?<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Yes, the mailto can also be encoded. Doesn't matter though, because \
it's<br> &gt; &gt; constant.<br>
&gt; &gt; I just wanted to add that obfuscating could be done easily by a<br>
&gt; &gt; mediawiki filter such as<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailObfuscator (uses the ascii<br>
&gt; &gt; code method)<br>
&gt; &gt; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailAddressImage (replace<br>
&gt; &gt; address with Image)<br>
&gt; &gt; http://www.mcmilk.de/wiki/Wiki_EmailTag (image as well)<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Greetings<br>
&gt; &gt; André<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; All three look good. CCing danimo, as he's our admin guy :)<br>
&gt; I'd prefer the obfuscation and make the names clickable instead<br>
&gt; additionally showing the addresses as an image. Needs less space and still<br>
&gt; all infos are available.<br>
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margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; \
-qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I'd recommend against image-based methods based on \
accessibility concerns.  I think the ASCII-encoding method is a fine compromise.<br> \
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; \
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; \
                -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Regards,<br>
 - Michael Pyne</p></body></html>


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