wiki capcha not working

[tacman1123]

I've been trying since yesterday to update an error on the avisynth wiki. The Special:Captcha seems to be broken, it tries for about 90 seconds to load the image, then fails.

Who is the best person to contact about this issue?

Thx,

Tac

[Wilbert]

It works fine for me. Do you still have this problem?

[tacman1123]

I tried every few hours for about 3 days, and gave up. But yesterday it worked fine, and I made some tiny changes to one page. Now I'm trying to navigate back to the page where I found the first error!

[tacman1123]

Once again, it's not working, take about 2 minutes to come back, usually with no image.

The capcha is way too strong. About half the time I can't read what it is, so on the rare occasion that something comes back, I get it wrong. It's already taken me more than 10 minutes to fix 2 spelling mistakes on the Trim() page (should be independent, not independant).

Tac

[Fizick]

i agree, it is awful.

IMO we need in desabling captcha for registered users (no only for admins) after checking, probably by manual permission by admins,
and put them to "human" group. :)

[Wilbert]

IMO we need in desabling captcha for registered users (no only for admins) after checking, probably by manual permission by admins,
and put them to "human" group.
I agree, but only Richard can do that. Sadly, it's pretty much impossible to get into contact with him nowadays.

[IanB]

The captcha probably should work like postfix's greylist feature, once an IP has passed the test remember it and then for up to 30 days after their last access.

[Gavino]

The captcha probably should work like postfix's greylist feature, once an IP has passed the test remember it and then for up to 30 days after their last access.
What about people with dynamic IP addresses?

[IanB]

@Gavino,

Well they get a new captcha each time they reboot their router, and the old permit expires 30? days latter (a small hole, if a spammer flukes that address). They at least get to have a contiguous session of editing the wiki in peace.

There are many variations to the theme that are possible. The goal should be a balance between not inconveniencing the good guys while roasting the bad guys chestnuts. Even remembering IP addresses for 1 day would be an improvement.

Also a help for when the captcha graphics are hard for a human to read, is to provide 2 or 3 sets at a time. The human picks the easiest one for them and solves it.