: Any of you PMC members care to give them the green light? Personally, i think the wiki textchas have been a great way of helping cut down on the amount of wiki spam, so i don't think we should turn them off in general
That said: there is the other option for bypassing the textcha... http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm#per_wiki_access_control_-_tighten_your_wiki_just_a_little.2C_benefit_just_a_lot I went ahead and added Benson to the AdminGroup for the solr wiki. : ---------- 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? : -Hoss
