Re: [wiki] horrible reCaptcha
Mike Driscoll <[email protected]>
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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 ----------------- Mike Driscoll Blog: http://blog.pythonlibrary.org Book: https://gumroad.com/l/bppWr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "wxPython-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.