captchas

[jeffy]

I wonder if it would be possible to keep the wiki from requiring captchas for links within the shadowunit.org domain... Linking back to the episodes and other canon content (as well as the boards) ought to be easier than this, IMHO.

[Edmund Schweppe]

I don't know if MediaWiki has any sort of "trusted domain" feature that lets you avoid captchas for certain domains. Even if it did, though, much [1] of the canon content comes from the character LiveJournals, and adding "livejournal.com" to a trusted domains list would open up the wiki to a lot of spam. Yes, the captchas are annoying, but you get used to them after a while, and a bit of annoyance is better than having spambots infest the wiki.

Besides, the word choices are sometimes ... amusing.

[1] Including all the canon we're going to get after tonight, until Season Two. At least, according to the PTB. Waaaah!

[jeffy]

You're right, definitely wouldn't help for the livejournals.

[Jim T]

You're right, definitely wouldn't help for the livejournals.

Sure it would; you'd just have to use the tertiary domain (i.e., would have to have, e.g., trollcatz.livejournal.com and the others rather than just livejournal.com.)

Looks like there are two options for whitelisting; either a sysop can add them to the page:
http://wiki.shadowunit.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Captcha-addurl-whitelist (I think) or something like:

$wgCaptchaWhitelist = '#^https?://((trollcatz|0metotchtli|cvillette|ace-cub-reportr)\.livejournal\.com|([a-z0-9.-]*\.)?shadowunit.org)/#i';

could be added to LocalSettings.php.  The former option probably needs something extra to be set in LocalSettings.php as well.

[jeffy]

You're right, definitely wouldn't help for the livejournals.

Sure it would; you'd just have to use the tertiary domain (i.e., would have to have, e.g., trollcatz.livejournal.com and the others rather than just livejournal.com.)

Doh! Webghoul! here, webghoul...

Thanks, Jim for at least validating the concept.

[Amanda Downum]

I'm confused. When/where exactly are you being asked for captchas?

[Edmund Schweppe]

We (or at least I) get asked for a captcha whenever I save changes to a Wiki page that has a new or changed non-wiki link. Most recent example: I added some stuff to Blaze's page about how Hafidha cured him of stealing her cupcakes, and I included a link to the LiveJournal reply where she talked about it. That link was new to the page, and I was asked for a captcha.

(WebGhouls might not have this problem, having Goddess-like permissions and all that.)

[jeffy]

Yeah, and for me it's mostly been links to the forum that trigger captchas. (been catching up and adding entries to the My Fandom page as I go through the archives. Me? Obsessive?)

[incognita]

I'm not sure that this is the place to mention this.
When I recently tried to update the timeline page on the wiki and add a link to "Three Day Weekend", I got a message that said 'Could not open socket'.
I'm not sure if it something I am doing, or related to the captcha.