[openstack-dev] venting -- OpenStack wiki reCAPTCHA

Tom Fifield tom at openstack.org
Fri Sep 9 22:12:56 UTC 2016



On 廿十六年九月九日 暮 02:01, Shamail wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I'll help with that.  :)

Thanks Shamail - standby - I will write up instructions and send them 
through.


> Thanks,
> Shamail
>
>> On Sep 9, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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