Hi,
I agree with Andrew that is not practical to whitelist ip addresses as a
primary method of overcoming account creation/ CAPTCHA issues at events.
Organizers often will not know the ip range in advance because of changes
in the address, or last minute changes in the location of the event.
The solution(s) needs to be something that is easy to use for people with
minimal tech knowledge so we can expand the group of people who are
sponsoring and holding events.
This problem goes back to a core issue that effect outreach efforts:
Wikipedia was originally set up to be edited by people sitting alone with a
PC/laptop.
Although today many outreach efforts are directed at group events or
partner organizations, these new editors still need to fit into polices and
a tech environment where editing solo is the norm.
To attract different groups of people to WMF projects, changing methods of
dealing with group editing or the new account creation experience needs to
be a priority.
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk>
wrote:
It's true that events *can* get whitelisted, but
this is a very
complex method. It relies on the organiser knowing the IP ranges in
advance, and knowing who to contact at WMF - and on WMF having the
time to deal with it. It would rapidly break down if we needed to use
this method for every small training session. (I used to do two or
three workshops a week...)
Andrew.
On 19 June 2015 at 19:16, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Events sometimes get whitelisted for account
creation purposes:
https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/throttle.php.txt
The exceptions there there could be made to set $wgCaptchaWhitelistIP
too.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:54 AM, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> alternatively perhaps we could whitelist certain domains as likely to
be
reliable sources and unlikely to be spam.
There actually already is a whitelist
($wgCaptchaWhitelist in
https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/CommonSettings.php.txt).
Unfortunately, as far as I know, there's no on-wiki way to change it,
but you could always compile a list of domains and submit it through
Phabricator.
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