On 14.03.2014 17:01, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 14/03/14 15:50, Richard Z. wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 03:43:38PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: >>> On 14/03/14 15:06, Richard Z. wrote: >>> >>>> How about an OSM quiz instead of captchas? >>> >>> You're offering to write one I take it? >> >> will think about one. In the short term, there are open tickets >> which should make it a lot easier > > Well 5116 doesn't actually specify what it is you actually the admins to > do. It asks for "known good URLs" to be whitelisted without actually > defining what constitutes a "known good URL". > > Since I'm pretty sure that both "known good" and "known bad" are > infinite sets, even if anybody could agree what constituted good or bad > in this context, it is really very helpful. > > I'm sure if you make concrete suggestions for URLs that should be > whitelisted then somebody will consider them. > > I'm not exactly sure what 3898 is asking for because I'm not familiar > with the details of that config option, but it sounds like it is just > asking for the captcha to be switched off. I'm sure that would be lovely > for the real wiki users. I'm equally sure it would be lovely for the > spammers, so it's not really a solution for anything. > > Certainly neither of those tickets seems to represent something trivial > or concrete that could be actioned immediately in the way you are implying.
How about interwiki links to *.wikipedia.org, *.openstreetmap.org and josm.openstreetmap.de for a start ? Could be first in the whitelist but interwiki links would be much nicer. cu colliar
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