On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Comet styles <cometsty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Until they fix captcha or allow Global Filters to become truly global, > there will always be a risk of spambots. For someone who deals with > these on a regular basis and has been doing it for years, making the > Captcha system more friendly to users also means making it more > 'friendly' to spam bot masters...the only alternative is to make > captchas more trickier or harder....As i mentioned a few times on IRC, > every 3rd account created on wikimedia is a spambot and thats just > accounts, not taking into account the thousands of spam edits by IP's > daily..
Is there bugs raised for global filters? Also, I suspect that relying on Abuse Filters wrt Wikibase sites is going to be a bad idea ; the abuse filters would need to parse the JSON...? Also it is a very large wiki by content, important for spammers because it can directly change the content of several wikis, but still a quite small wiki by dedicated maintenance team, so may be quickly overwhelmed if included in testing by devs. That also applies to the test.wikidata environment, except for the utility of spamming it, but spammers need a test site too. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
