[openstack-dev] venting -- OpenStack wiki reCAPTCHA

Tom Fifield tom at openstack.org
Mon Sep 19 06:18:13 UTC 2016


On 10/09/16 06:12, Tom Fifield wrote:
>
>
> On 廿十六年九月九日 暮 02:01, Shamail wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> I'll help with that.  :)
>
> Thanks Shamail - standby - I will write up instructions and send them
> through.

I added a section "Helping Real Users avoid the CAPTCHA (admin rights 
needed)" on the wiki gardening page:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/How_To_Use_The_Wiki#Helping_Real_Users_avoid_the_CAPTCHA_.28admin_rights_needed.29

Please try it out and edit as needed!

>
>> Thanks,
>> Shamail
>>
>>> On Sep 9, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 廿十六年九月九日 朝 11:45, Hayes, Graham wrote:
>>>>> On 09/09/2016 08:44, Tom Fifield wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 廿十六年九月八日 暮 08:36, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2016-09-09 01:10:15 +0000 (+0000), Bhandaru, Malini K wrote:
>>>>>>> Is it just me who likes to hit the save button often?
>>>>>>> It gets tedious proving often that you are not a robot. Wiki
>>>>>>> reCAPTCHA likes proof even if saves are spaced less than a minute
>>>>>>> apart!
>>>>>>> Wiki Gods, hear my plea!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I sympathize. That captcha addition is one of several tools we're
>>>>>> leveraging currently to combat the ongoing spam/scammer/vandalism
>>>>>> problems on wiki.openstack.org, as an alternative to shutting it
>>>>>> down completely. Unfortunately even now I still spend a chunk of
>>>>>> every day blocking new accounts created by abusers and cleaning up
>>>>>> all their modifications, but am hoping that with other improvements
>>>>>> we have pending the onslaught will lessen and we can revisit some of
>>>>>> the more intrusive mechanisms on which we've been forced to rely
>>>>>> (for example, I think we should be able to configure it so that
>>>>>> users whose previous edits have been confirmed by a wiki admin are
>>>>>> added to a group that bypasses the captcha, and then get a team of
>>>>>> wiki groomers in the habit of adding known good accounts to that
>>>>>> group).
>>>>>
>>>>> Indeed - fungi has been doing amazing work :(
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been adding "known good" accounts to such a group - there's
>>>>> about
>>>>> 64 so far:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://wiki.openstack.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=autopatrol
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How would someone get in said list?
>>>
>>> $100 donation to the buy-fungi-beer fund.
>>>
>>> ... and/or email me a link to your wiki user page (Click in the top
>>> right, click on your username)
>>>
>>> I'm also going through the recent edits and adding people to get the
>>> "bulk" of us in there, when time permits. Anyone else that wants to
>>> help is welcome.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to disable CAPTCHA for users in group "autopatrol"?
>>>>>
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