This deserves a 1 meter barnstar to Alex, Giuseppe and Yuvi!
The impact is so visible on
* the last three graphs at
https://gdash.wikimedia.org/dashboards/editpage/ and
* the last four at https://gdash.wikimedia.org/dashboards/totalphp/ ,
that one tends to suspect an error in the graphs.
Nemo
Thank you so much guys, now it's clear!
-
Yury Katkov
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 18:56:27 +0100, Erik Bernhardson
ebernhard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm not aware of any list anywhere that summarizes the possible
Thanks for all your outstanding work, Ori! This one was so fantastic I had
to forward a bit... at least you can admit you have a problem :p
-Adam
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From: Ori.livneh (Code Review) ger...@wikimedia.org
Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:55 AM
Subject: [Ops]
Hi all!
The Architecture Committee, and especially Tim, has been going through the RFC
backlog over the last moths. Many where discussed at the weekly RFC chat on
Wednesdays, and most of these were resolved. But there are some rather old RFCs
left, for which it's a bit unclear whether anyone is
On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 1:41:43 PM Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de
wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/
Drop_actions_in_favour_of_page_views_and_special_pages
This is a proposal to move away from action= in favor of Special pages.
Perhaps
obsolete, since action
Am 04.12.2014 22:46, schrieb Chad:
On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 1:41:43 PM Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de
wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/
Drop_actions_in_favour_of_page_views_and_special_pages
This is a proposal to move away from action= in favor of Special pages.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 8:18:53 PM MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
svetlana wrote:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 15:02, MZMcBride wrote:
We disabled the CAPTCHA entirely on test.wikipedia.org a few weeks ago.
The wiki seems
Steven Walling wrote:
There are about a million IP edits a month on English Wikipedia alone, last
time we checked.[1] If we increased anonymous bot spam by even only 1/10th
of the total number of edits before we managed to put IP blocks in place,
that's still 100k edits worth of spam.
That's
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
On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 2:45:39 PM Chris Steipp cste...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 8:18:53 PM MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
svetlana wrote:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 15:02, MZMcBride wrote:
We
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:27 PM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote:
I like how my message to try abandoning captcha entirely came up with a
myriad of complaints how we can be smart, enable new captcha which is unique,
etc.
Let's measure the impact.
Could someone kindly please do some
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
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:48 PM, 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
Chad wrote:
Well that was a fun experiment for an hour. Turns out captchas do actually
stop a non-zero amount of spam on non-test wikis.
Mediawiki.org logs tell the story pretty clearly.
This has been rolled back.
:-(
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete
I spent a bit of time
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:08 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
snip
Robert, let me know if you want access on mediawiki.org to look at the
deleted edits, though they're quite boring.
It wouldn't hurt to take a look. Though I suspect getting feedback from
people who look at these things
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:08 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Chad wrote:
Well that was a fun experiment for an hour. Turns out captchas do actually
stop a non-zero amount of spam on non-test wikis.
Mediawiki.org logs tell the story pretty clearly.
This has been rolled back.
:-(
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
Please save the date for the monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia
Language Engineering team on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 1700 UTC
on #wikimedia-office. Project updates will include information about
the new version of Content Translation[1] and plans for
Responding inline:
Brian Wolff bawolff at gmail.com writes:
The most immediate thing that comes to mind is why create a new
interface where users can add words, instead of just scrapping
wiktionary? (I take it from your proposal you plan to create a new
project where users can submit words
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