Just picking up the thread that Tom initiated about captchas on the wiki. We had this invitation from Nick:
> If anyone has experience > administering a mediawiki installation and wants to volunteer to help > sort this out, while being aware that we *do not* want to naively roll > back the spam protections currently in place, then please let me know > and we can make sure you have the appropriate access. But presumably no-one has felt able to step up to this challenge. Heather wrote: > I have to say that captchas are a common practice. We had one on the Ushahidi > wiki and a few other OS communities. > > This morning a few staffers had a chat about the next steps. I am working on > a plan with them which will definitely require community input and > collaboration. Eric responded: > One can imagine a situation where you face a captcha once per-session. As in, > you fill out a captcha the first time you edit, and it then assumes you're > human for future edits until you close your browser. This sounds reasonable to me; is it an option? I’m reopening this because I’ve just had a round of editing the wiki, and I have to say I agree entirely with Tom’s original remark: > it gets really hard to do anything meaningful when you have to keep typing > those stupid characters for every single edit again and again and again. Any updates from OKF central on this? Many thanks, Ewan ------------- Ewan Klein OKF Ambassador for Scotland Skype: ewan.h.klein | @ewanhklein The Open Knowledge Foundation Empowering through Open Knowledge http://scot.okfn.org/ | @okfnscot
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