This drives me insane as well. I'd love to lose it. I'd also love to move to Confluence, but another battle.
Anyone *object* to removing these questions? On Apr 16, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Any of you PMC members care to give them the green light? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Gavin McDonald <ga...@16degrees.com.au> > Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:34 PM > Subject: Re: Wiki authentication question > To: Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > Cc: "infrastruct...@apache.org" <infrastruct...@apache.org> > > > Please see wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm for explanations and > how to get your wiki configured so that you no longer need to enter > captchas. A yes go ahead and I'll configure it today for you > > Gav > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 16/04/2012, at 2:57 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've been doing a lot of editing on the Lucene wiki lately. Every edit >> demands the answer to a question. Many of the questions are ASF >> trivial questions. At best, I have to google for each one. At least >> one didn't accept the 'right' answer. It asked me for the full name of >> the treasurer. The official officer page calls him 'Sam'. I have no >> idea if his birth certificate called him Samuel, Samwise, or Samovar, >> but the wiki rejected plain old Sam. (For all I know, the wiki is >> still looking for Geir.) >> >> Is there any way the wiki could be interconnected with the rest of the >> infrastructure so that committers could log in 'as themselves' and be >> spared this? - Mark Miller lucidimagination.com