Re: Freeze break request: Update wiki captcha settings

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+1

Thank you for clearing up my confusion.

On 17 March 2016 at 13:22, Patrick Uiterwijk <puiterwijk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Per request of Adam Williamsion (discussion about ticket #5140), I would
>> > like to disable captchas for logged in people.
>> > At the same time, I'm also disabling the on-login captcha that stopped
>> > the spam cleanup script from working at times of heavy spam.
>> >
>>
>> I am unclear on what you mean. Does this mean that a person logged in can
>> write to the wiki after they created an account if they log in
>
> This means that logged in people (we only allow login via FAS) won't get a captcha.
> This is needed for Adam's bots as the API captcha's aren't very stable.
>
> The other one (on-login captcha) is a captcha that the plugin sometimes enabled
> if it saw a lot of failed login attempts for all logins.
> So when the spammers are trying to login a lot, they trigger this system, which
> means that all API logins are rejected.
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