On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Nakor <nakor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Reposting as I realize it did not go to talk list. > >> >> Kate, >> >> If you go to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights >> you will see that autoconfirmed users does not have the skipcaptcha right so >> that would need to be set in the first place. >> >> Additionnaly if you go to >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Special:Preferences you will see the >> groups you are in. I am "autoconfirmed" with 315 edits and 2 month of >> account existance. If you believe the description on the wiki, it says that >> you need a 4-days old account to be autoconfirmed. >> >> Maybe this should be increased (or a minimum number of edits set) to >> prevent spam but I agree with you that after a certain time we should not >> see the captcha. >> >> Thanks, >> >> N. >
On Wikipedia, accounts are autoconfirmed if they are 4 days old and have 10 edits. I think we could try making it one week and 10 edits. I doubt we will have any added problem with spammers, but if we do, then the settings could be adjusted as needed. The default auto confirm settings are in includes/DefaultSettings.php; on my personal wikis, auto confirm is not set by default -- it's zero by default) LocalSettings.php is used to override the defaults. To set this, the skipcatcha right and autoconfirm settings can be added in LocalSettings.php: $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] $wgAutoConfirmAge = 86400*7; // seven days $wgAutoConfirmCount = 10; -Kate PS - is there some better place than this list to request//suggest such changes to the wiki? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
