[openstack-dev] venting -- OpenStack wiki reCAPTCHA

Hayes, Graham graham.hayes at hpe.com
Fri Sep 9 16:45:04 UTC 2016


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?

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