[openstack-dev] venting -- OpenStack wiki reCAPTCHA

Tom Fifield tom at openstack.org
Fri Sep 9 18:49:55 UTC 2016


On 廿十六年九月九日 朝 11:45, Hayes, Graham wrote:
> 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?

$100 donation to the buy-fungi-beer fund.

... and/or email me a link to your wiki user page (Click in the top  
right, click on your username)

I'm also going through the recent edits and adding people to get the  
"bulk" of us in there, when time permits. Anyone else that wants to help  
is welcome.




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