On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 2:45:39 PM Chris Steipp <cste...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 8:18:53 PM MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > > > >> svetlana wrote: > >> >On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 15:02, MZMcBride wrote: > >> >> > >> >> We disabled the CAPTCHA entirely on test.wikipedia.org a few weeks > ago. > >> >> The wiki seems to be about the same. It probably makes sense to > continue > >> >> slowly disabling the CAPTCHA on wikis until users start to shout. > >> >>Perhaps we'll disable the CAPTCHA on the rest of the phase 0 wikis > next? > >> > > >> >It would be nice. What are these wikis? Can we ask them for permission > on > >> >their village pumps? > >> > >> Err, group 0, not phase 0! > >> > >> <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=group0.dblist> is > the > >> list. I think we can convince the various affected communities. :-) > >> > >> > > Patch up for review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177494/ > > Do we have metrics for the effect the change has had on testwiki, > before we roll this out further? Number of accounts registered, number > of those who are later blocked for spam, number of edits reverted as > spam, etc? > > With SUL, disabling captcha for account creation on one wiki > effectively means we have disabled it on all wikis (create account on > testwiki, visit enwiki, you're autocreated, edit!). > > I definitely support experimenting, I just want to make sure we're > collecting and watching the right numbers while we experiment. > > Well that was a fun experiment for an hour. Turns out captchas do actually stop a non-zero amount of spam on non-test wikis. Mediawiki.org logs tell the story pretty clearly. This has been rolled back. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
