email obfuscation on mediawiki (was: Re: update the feature plan!)

[Dominik Haumann]

On Saturday 24 January 2009, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> Am Freitag 23 Januar 2009 schrieb Dominik Haumann:
> > On Thursday 22 January 2009, Andre Gemünd wrote:
> > > 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)
>
> [...]
>
> > 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.
>
> Ok, EmailObfuscator is it. Installed on both techbase and userbase. Note
> however that you will have to adjust the syntax to <email
> address="foo at example.com">Foo</email> to benefit from the extension's
> protection.

And here is a test: http://techbase.kde.org/Sandbox
Unfortunately, it doesn't work correctly, see also the discussion page on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:EmailObfuscator
I could not find a solution there, yet.

Dominik