[openstack-dev] venting -- OpenStack wiki reCAPTCHA

Morgan Fainberg morgan.fainberg at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 15:51:48 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:

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> On 廿十六年九月九日 朝 10:41, Tom Fifield wrote:
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>> On 廿十六年九月八日 暮 08:36, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>> https://wiki.openstack.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUse
>> rs&group=autopatrol
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>> Is it possible to disable CAPTCHA for users in group "autopatrol"?
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>
> aha! It is indeed.
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> Adding
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> $wgGroupPermissions['autopatrol']['skipcaptcha'] = true;
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> will solve this annoyance for Malini and others
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For what it's worth, the captcha is the reason I stopped using / updating
the wiki and was a driver for keystone to move to using etherpad for the
weekly meeting agenda instead.

--Morgan
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