[Labs-l] Spam issues on labs sites

Sat Jun 23 21:22:43 UTC 2012

Is there still problem with this or not? There is a team of volunteers
who remove the spam quite often now

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Daniel Zahn <dzahn at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> On the tesla cluster we used recaptcha. I'm pretty sure our policies
>> actually forbid using any outside captchas, though.
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> well i did that as well before Asirra but then...
> https://www.google.com/search?q=recaptcha+cracked
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> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/11/1411254/google-recaptcha-cracked
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> that kind of made me switch away from recaptcha (which seemed like such an
> _awesome_ idea when starting with it,
> still i think it would be most cool if our captchas would actually help us
> with our work (like convert scanned books from
> wikisources into plain text).
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>> We should work on getting the IRC stuff working. The thing that's
>> lacking right now is that the script they need is in the private repo,
>> because it's littered with passwords.
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> yay for that
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