On 31 July 2012 22:25, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > 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, but this is a > > pretty big deal as a few hundred volunteer hours a month are going into > the > > despamming effort. > > Reported separately where? >
Bugzilla, I understand, by one or more of the checkusers > > CAPTCHAs were designed for "test if you're human," not "test if you're > spam." It's a wonder they've worked this long. I imagine better anti-spam > tools are needed (which may be a new extension, new AbuseFilter filters, > better user scripts, etc.). > They're spambots and thus both non-human and spammy. > > If the situation is as dire as it sounds, it shouldn't be difficult to find > a few resources to throw at the problem. In a discussion like this, > examples > of particular problematic behavior (links!) are always most helpful to > developers, I've found. "This is the bad behavior we're seeing and want to > stop. How should we do that?" :-) > > I've been advised some of WMF's best are already working on it; however, if you want to see examples you could look at steward Billinghurst's block logs, mostly on non=English wikis. Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
