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I've fixed up the image-based captcha to read from subdirectories, which should put less load on the file server.
Also I've gone ahead and enabled it for all wikis, partly in response to concerns that there's some possibly machine-based mass registration going on which might be malicious.
If there's problems, let us know.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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Brion Vibber wrote:
If there's problems, let us know.
The captcha now works for clients with cookies disabled; it can use the memcache infrastructure for storing captcha session information instead of the cookie-keyed general PHP session.
Logins still require cookies, but this will make the signup form a little more clear, and anons with disabled cookies will be able to add URLs to pages as long as they can pass the captcha.
You can enable this on a local installation by setting: $wgCaptchaStorageClass = 'CaptchaCacheStore';
(Caching has to be set up such that $wgMemc will be useful; a default install of MediaWiki would just send that data into a black hole. Memcache will work, APC/eAccelerator/etc might or might not.)
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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Brion Vibber wrote:
I've fixed up the image-based captcha to read from subdirectories, which should put less load on the file server.
Also I've gone ahead and enabled it for all wikis, partly in response to concerns that there's some possibly machine-based mass registration going on which might be malicious.
If there's problems, let us know.
Has the CAPTCHA since been disabled, and why? We're no longer seeing it in use on any wikis while trying to make anonymous edits.
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On 2/27/07, Ben McIlwain cydeweys@gmail.com wrote:
Has the CAPTCHA since been disabled, and why? We're no longer seeing it in use on any wikis while trying to make anonymous edits.
The captcha was only universally enabled for registrations and potentially spammy things like the addition of external links, not for anonymous edits generally.
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