Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-31 Thread Dmitriy Sintsov
1 Август 2012 г. 6:26:02 пользователь MZMcBride (z...@mzmcbride.com) написал: Risker wrote: > Putting on my checkuser hat for a moment - yes, please please look at > finding a different CAPTCHA process - the cross-wiki spamming by bots that > are able to "break" the CAPTCHA is becoming overwhel

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-31 Thread MZMcBride
Risker wrote: > Putting on my checkuser hat for a moment - yes, please please look at > finding a different CAPTCHA process - the cross-wiki spamming by bots that > are able to "break" the CAPTCHA is becoming overwhelming. This issue has > been reported separately, and there may be a different fix

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-31 Thread Platonides
On 31/07/12 19:53, James Forrester wrote: >> I agree. But when you're spammed to death if there's no captcha, >> you end up accepting it as a necessary evil. > > Just to jump in here, it's not actually clear that our CAPTCHAs work > at all at this point (per Tim's e-mail from last year of being ab

Re: [Wikitech-l] Lessons from the newcomer side of the Hackathon

2012-07-31 Thread Leslie Carr
> == The combination of newcomers and experienced people seemed to work == > > We got two different notes in the exit survey about this -- one from a > person who said they were happy working in the big open main room and didn't > feel distracted by noise, and from another person who said they went

[Wikitech-l] Lessons from the newcomer side of the Hackathon

2012-07-31 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hi all wikitech-ers, I wanted to summarize a few lessons learned from the Wikimania Hackathon and make myself available to discuss any of these issues at greater length on the list. Also, if you (as an attendee) have other thoughts you want to share about the Hackathon, feel quite free to em

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-31 Thread Risker
On 31 July 2012 13:53, James Forrester wrote: > On 30 July 2012 15:22, Platonides wrote: > > On 30/07/12 15:28, Pau Giner wrote: > >> From the UX perspective, a captcha is always an obstacle for the > >> interaction flow. > > > > I agree. But when you're spammed to death if there's no captcha, >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-31 Thread James Forrester
On 30 July 2012 15:22, Platonides wrote: > On 30/07/12 15:28, Pau Giner wrote: >> From the UX perspective, a captcha is always an obstacle for the >> interaction flow. > > I agree. But when you're spammed to death if there's no captcha, > you end up accepting it as a necessary evil. Just to jump

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha for non-English speakers II

2012-07-31 Thread Tei
Sounds like captchas is something you want to make plug and play, and use some external project that is evolving quickly to stay in the winning side of a arms race. Also sounds like captchas is something you want to be handled by locals, to avoid the situation a chinese wiki with a english captcha.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Extensions form building

2012-07-31 Thread Bedhed
Adm gmail.com> writes: > > hello, > I'd like to do thinks in the better way...then: > > I have to made an extension similar to BoilerTemplate. > Right now I made a special page and I'd like to put in a form to let > user choose a teplate. > > Some questions: > > 1) Must I use some apis to ren