[openstack-dev] venting -- OpenStack wiki reCAPTCHA
Tom Fifield
tom at openstack.org
Fri Sep 9 16:06:21 UTC 2016
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/368114/
On 廿十六年九月九日 朝 10:51, Morgan Fainberg wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org
> <mailto: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:
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> 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!
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> 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 <http://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).
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> Indeed - fungi has been doing amazing work :(
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> 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:ListUsers&group=autopatrol
> <https://wiki.openstack.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&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.
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> --Morgan
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