On 6 February 2014 23:42, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> jan i wrote: > >> I warned about exactly that, but I was asked (see JIRAs) to remove the >> cats (captcha). If you read the JIRA (which was watched be several in >> here) >> you will see my warning. >> > > The idea was to replace the CAPTCHA with something better, otherwise we > can (should) keep the current CAPTCHA and discuss a better solution in the > meantime. > > The cats cause incompatibilities and other issues, but if they are much > more effective than the replacement let's go back to the cats as soon as > possible and in the "see what's best to replace them (but something MORE > effective, not LESS effective!). > May I politely correct you, the idea was NOT to replace the cats. The jira was implemented by the word ! The exact wording is: "Wiki6: Cats/Dogs CAPTCHA for new user registration is quite broken. It doesn't work in several browser configurations, it includes HTTP instead of HTTPS https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123695 -> Recommended solution: drop it entirely. " That statement is pretty clear, how it can be read as moving to something more effective slips my mind. later the jira contains: "accessibility suggestion from Tyler (haven't tested MediaWiki compatibility): there is a website which provides text-based CAPTCHA's in the form of logic questions, math problems, etc. It provides an XML API. See http://www.textcaptcha.com/ " Apart from the facts, thats its a suggestion and not a decision (like that above), we do not use extensions that are not supported by mediawiki (meaning downloadable from mediawiki.com and verified for our release). As a sidenote, that captcha is pretty much the same as the standard which are active right now. There are quite a lot of captcha´s out there, just looking at mediawiki.com extensions gives a lot of choises. At this point in time we have several choices: 1) leave the config as it is 2) reinstall cats 3) choose another captcha (in this case we need to decide which one). I am not the one to overrule a community decision (Wiki6), but I will happely implement another community decision. rgds jan I. > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
