[OSM-talk] Hate captchas!!!!

[Stefan Keller]

Hi Richard, hi Simon

At 2014-03-14 16:19 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole wrote
> > At 14.03.2014 16:06, schrieb Richard Z.:
> > is there really no way to avoid those horrible captchas whenever I add
> > a link to a JOSM bug ticket or another friendly website to the wiki??
...
> What I saw on Tuesday seem to indicate that ReMAPTCHA (Stefan?) is
> nearly here. As the name says it is map related.
>
> Unluckily it is still a pain to use if you have problems with your
> eyesight, but at least you are not working for google at the same time.

Yes, that's right, we are working hard to release a map related
ReCaptcha, I called ReMAPTCHA.
I will present it at GI_Forum Symposium in Salzburg in July 1-4 2014.
I really hope to have a beta release ready next week!

Yours, Stefan


2014-03-15 20:36 GMT+01:00 Craig Wallace <craigw84 at fastmail.fm>:
> On 2014-03-15 19:04, colliar wrote:
>>
>> On 14.03.2014 19:12, Tobias Knerr wrote:
>>>
>>> On 14.03.2014 17:15, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think most of those are already whitelisted aren't they?
>>>
>>>
>>> Unless I'm mistaken, these are the currently whitelisted URLs:
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Captcha-addurl-whitelist
>>
>>
>> How about adding *.wikipedia.org and josm.openstreetmaü.de to the list ?
>
>
> The whitelist already includes openstreetmap\.de and \.wikipedia\.org
>
> Not sure if that would include josm.openstreetmap.de, I don't know how the
> whitelist matches links?
>
>
>> I am still in favour of interwiki links as they keep the connection
>> protocol.
>
>
> Interwiki links to Wikipedia work fine.
> Just use something like [[wikipedia:OpenStreetMap]] or [[w:OpenStreetMap]]
> Or specify the language, eg [[wikipedia:de:OpenStreetMap]]
>
> Craig
>
>
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