[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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