On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 2:45:39 PM Chris Steipp csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Chad innocentkiller@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 to be about the same. It probably makes sense to
continue
slowly disabling the CAPTCHA on wikis until users start to shout. Perhaps we'll disable the CAPTCHA on the rest of the phase 0 wikis
next?
It would be nice. What are these wikis? Can we ask them for permission
on
their village pumps?
Err, group 0, not phase 0!
https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=group0.dblist is
the
list. I think we can convince the various affected communities. :-)
Patch up for review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177494/
Do we have metrics for the effect the change has had on testwiki, before we roll this out further? Number of accounts registered, number of those who are later blocked for spam, number of edits reverted as spam, etc?
With SUL, disabling captcha for account creation on one wiki effectively means we have disabled it on all wikis (create account on testwiki, visit enwiki, you're autocreated, edit!).
I definitely support experimenting, I just want to make sure we're collecting and watching the right numbers while we experiment.
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.
-Chad