One can imagine a situation where you face a captcha once per-session. As in, you fill out a captcha the first time you edit, and it then assumes you're human for future edits until you close your browser.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Heather Leson <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks, Nick. > > I have to say that captchas are a common practice. We had one on the > Ushahidi wiki and a few other OS communities. > > This morning a few staffers had a chat about the next steps. I am working > on a plan with them which will definitely require community input and > collaboration. We need a few cycles on this, but we do think the wiki is > core. Certainly, the beautiful community entries on the > wiki.opendataday.org highlights this need. > > You have been infinitely patient with us as we reorganize the online > spaces. Here's to making it better for all of us. > > > Heather > > > On 11 March 2014 11:11, Nick Stenning <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 11:16, Michael Bauer wrote: >> > Tom, >> > >> > Agree with you there. Found editing very annoying. >> > >> > Do you know who maintains the Wiki right now? >> >> Hi Tom, Michael, and the rest of the list, >> >> Here's the deal: this time last year, our wiki was absolutely flooded >> with spam, to an extent that might seem hard to believe. At its peak, we >> received hundreds of user registrations every day, and spam pages >> outnumbered real content on the wiki by a factor of 10 to 1. >> >> The Foundation has extremely limited system administrator resource, so >> we haven't been able to dedicate as much time or effort as we'd like to >> keeping the wiki clean and easy to contribute to. Luckily for us, we >> have a fantastic community, including such people as Harry Wood[1] and >> Chris Sakkas[2], both of whom have spent countless hours of their own >> time battling spam on the wiki and advising the system administrators on >> how best to configure the wiki to prevent spam. >> >> The current configuration of the wiki is primarily the result of Joel's >> implementation of Harry's advice. While we still get some spam user >> registrations[3] things have in general calmed down and the wiki is once >> again a reasonably useful space for the community. >> >> Obviously, there's substantial room for improvement. One problem is that >> the spam controls are somewhat draconian and get in the way of people >> trying to make simple edits to the wiki. If anyone has experience >> administering a mediawiki installation and wants to volunteer to help >> sort this out, while being aware that we *do not* want to naively roll >> back the spam protections currently in place, then please let me know >> and we can make sure you have the appropriate access. >> >> Best, >> Nick >> >> [1]: http://wiki.okfn.org/User:Harry_Wood >> [2]: http://wiki.okfn.org/User:Sanglorian >> [3]: >> >> http://wiki.okfn.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500&days=30 >> >> -- >> Nick Stenning >> Technical Director, Open Knowledge Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss >> > > > > -- > > > > > Heather Leson, Community Engagement Director > > Open Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/>*, Empowering through Open > Knowledge* > > IRC/skype: heatherleson | @heatherleson<https://twitter.com/heatherleson> > http://okfn.org/ | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | OKF on > Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> | Blog<http://blog.okfn.org/> | > Newsletter<http://okfn.org/about/newsletter> > <http://okfn.org/about/newsletter> > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > > -- Developer | sunlightfoundation.com
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