[openstack-dev] venting -- OpenStack wiki reCAPTCHA

Tom Fifield tom at openstack.org
Fri Sep 9 15:41:35 UTC 2016



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


Is it possible to disable CAPTCHA for users in group "autopatrol"?



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