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| 13:35 | willkg | hi! |
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| 21:42 | paulproteus | willkg: Hey, we were talking about wiki changes. |
| 21:43 | willkg | yes! we are suffering uber spam from human jackasses in our wiki! |
| 21:43 | paulproteus | Or at least bots who can do math. |
| 21:43 | willkg | i would like to minimize it without causing undue irritation. |
| 21:43 | paulproteus | It seems that the captcha likes to consider itself the last line of defense, as far as I can tell. |
| 21:43 | willkg | oh, i guess that's possible. |
| 21:43 | * paulproteus | is doing some reading |
| 21:43 | willkg | i mean, i can write a bot that does math. |
| 21:43 | * paulproteus | is brainstorming at http://openetherpad.org/uDPpsJnKbG |
| 21:43 | willkg | mmm... i should read the captcha code.... |
| 21:44 | paulproteus | willkg: So FWIW you might find that switching to FancyCaptcha takes care of it, with no further effort on your part. |
| 21:44 | willkg | maybe i can make the math more complicated parsing-wise. |
| 21:44 | paulproteus | Maybe you can do that experiment, and then if it works to end the spam, we can let emailconfirmed users skip the captcha. |
| 21:44 | That's my current suggestion. | |
| 21:44 | willkg | i thought of that, but it's kind of a goofy implementation, so i didn't bother. |
| 21:44 | paulproteus | It is a goofy implementation. |
| 21:45 | willkg | i'll work on setting that up now, though. |
| 21:45 | paulproteus | Cool. |
| 21:45 | Also I request you drop the DNS-based blacklists; those have blocked friends on very normal situations (home Baltimore Verizon DSL) | |
| 21:45 | willkg: Actually wait | |
| 21:45 | Don't remove the blacklist until I read something first | |
| 21:46 | * willkg | nods. |
| 21:49 | willkg | as a side note, i love how the command line to create these captcha images is for windows. |
| 21:49 | oh... there are two. nevermind that! | |
| 21:53 | afk a smidge... i have to go find my coffee cup which i left somewhere. | |
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| 22:10 | willkg | back. |
| 22:13 | paulproteus | willkg: My suggestion for today is, "See if FancyCaptcha solves your problem. If not, page me again." |
| 22:13 | The MediaWiki captcha plugin isn't as flexible as I would like. | |
| 22:13 | * willkg | nods. |
| 22:14 | willkg | i've got fancycaptcha configured. i'm testing it now. |
| 22:14 | mmm... it's kind of hard to read, though. | |
| 22:15 | but it's readable enough that i haven't failed one yet. | |
| 22:15 | i'll leave it like this for a bit. | |
| 22:15 | paulproteus | If you get more than 2 successful spam in 24 hours, I consider the experiment a failure, and we need to step things up. |
| 22:15 | willkg | sure. |
| 22:15 | we'll see how things go. i'll wait a few days. | |
| 22:15 | thank you for the help! | |
| 22:45 | afk for dinner. | |
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