Re: [wiki] horrible reCaptcha

Mike Driscoll <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.wxpython.devel
Message-ID <CAO4gEAvfuGTz1jdHr1SvGAasj51M8HwN70GTJLU4gx5kpk2DsQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:10 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do we really need a reCaptcha to edit wiki-pages?
>
> To use it I need to wide open my browser by temporary whitelisting a
> lot of google-stuff.
> And you know Google is using you here. For e.g. you identifing (reading)
> house numbers for their Street View project and things like that.
>
> I don't know how much bad activity is there on the wiki but if we need
> a captcha we should find a google-less solution without tearing down
> users security settings.
>
>
We definitely need a Captcha or something similar. There were so many spam
bots hitting the wiki that Robin had to take it down for a few weeks to
prevent service issues:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wxpython-dev/3xUqch1qwhg

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