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Revision as of 16:13, 27 January 2018 by Jukeboksi (talk | contribs) (Today I configured the mw:Extension:ConfirmAccount to be minimally annoying i.e. It asks a person requesting an account only for user name, email address and a short message. + Understanding how annoying requiring passing NOCAPTCHA is to genuine human)

January

Saturday 2018-01-27

Today I configured the mw:Extension:ConfirmAccount to be minimally annoying i.e. It asks a person requesting an account only for user name, email address and a short message. Previously it required "Real Name" (and we've never had a "require real names" rule or guideline).

Testing that it works I needed to solve the NOCAPTCHA many times and noticed how annoying and time consuming it is. This is hindering participation and a good strategy to minimize the annoyance caused by spambots while maintaining also minimum annoyance for genuine contributors. Jukeboksi (talk) 18:13, 27 January 2018 (EET)

Friday 2018-01-26

  • The server's clock had drifted to 13 minutes in the future and that is now fixed. For me the wiki is one hour in the future right now but this may be due to my preferences. I am planning to migrate the wiki to the new Debian 9 server this weekend. That server has NTP enabled so there should be no incorrect time over there. Jukeboksi (talk) 17:51, 26 January 2018 (EET)

Sunday 2018-01-21

  • I'm looking into purchasing a new VPS from the same hosting guys more advanced platform based on w:OpenStack. Jukeboksi (talk) 17:21, 21 January 2018 (EET)
Update: Purchased the VPS and will migrate this Consumerium Development wiki there in the coming few days. Jukeboksi (talk) 23:32, 24 January 2018 (EET)
  • Wikibase enables a wiki to act as a structured data system like Wikidata does for the Wikimedia wikis. I am looking into what is the best arrangement to install this, a dedicated wiki or as part of the English language Consumerium.org implementation wiki. Jukeboksi (talk) 17:05, 21 January 2018 (EET)

Saturday 2018-01-13

  • Installed The ConfirmAccount extension to stop the bots that are able to pass the NoCAPTCHA from registering accounts en masse. In practice this means that account creation is moderated. This is unfortunate but seemed necessary at least for a while. Jukeboksi (talk) 15:00, 13 January 2018 (EET)

Wednesday 2018-01-03

  • Made, verified and distributed backups of both production machines. Jukeboksi (talk) 17:01, 3 January 2018 (EET)
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