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I need clarification: is this Mediawiki or Wikimedia moving to gitlab? It seems the Wikimedia foundation is moving their code, so why is this on mediawiki.org?
Probably because mediawiki is the main Wikimedia software project.
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Can you say more about how it's a problem if people can view things without logging in? Naively I would have seen that as a plus.
Anything visible without login will be visible to people who want to follow a bare URL to your tracker and visible to a search engine crawler, making it visible to people without a URL who just search for the issue. That is, indeed, a plus. But even if you require login to post stuff to the issue tracker, creating a login and posting a comment has been trivially automated. You're no longer running a useful issue trac…
Isn't this what various CAPTCHA tools handle?
You can also require email address validation.
Anyone thinking of moving to their own Gitlab instance with Gitlab CE-- either stay on Github or prepare to waste your time dealing with user spam bots that pollute your site's search results. In other words-- if you want the common use case for a FOSS project: 1. publicly viewable main repository with publicly viewable issue tracker 2. requirement to log in to view all snippets, user profiles, perhaps even other rep…
Hi! I'm the PM at GitLab who works on Snippets, so thanks for providing this feedback. We do have Recaptcha support which can be configured - are you seeing these kinds of issues with that enabled/configured? One item that is on the roadmap that is coming and may be of interest is `Optional Admin Approval for local user sign up` - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/4491 . I'm not in the group working on tha…
I built a privacy friendly alternative to ReCaptcha called FriendlyCaptcha [1], is there a possibility to see this integrated as a more user friendly alternative?
Happy to chat (e-mail in profile)
Anyone thinking of moving to their own Gitlab instance with Gitlab CE-- either stay on Github or prepare to waste your time dealing with user spam bots that pollute your site's search results. In other words-- if you want the common use case for a FOSS project: 1. publicly viewable main repository with publicly viewable issue tracker 2. requirement to log in to view all snippets, user profiles, perhaps even other rep…
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Can you say more about how it's a problem if people can view things without logging in? Naively I would have seen that as a plus.
Because spammers fill the publicly viewable things-- like snippets and user profiles-- with spam. If it can be viewed without logging in, then they get it indexed with Google and it dilutes the search results. Nobody views snippets and user profiles as a common part of daily development, so it takes time away from development to investigate those things to prune them. And if you don't prune it fast enough, it gets in…
Isn't then the problem not that it is viewable but that it's not excluded from indexing by robots.txt?
Anyone thinking of moving to their own Gitlab instance with Gitlab CE-- either stay on Github or prepare to waste your time dealing with user spam bots that pollute your site's search results. In other words-- if you want the common use case for a FOSS project: 1. publicly viewable main repository with publicly viewable issue tracker 2. requirement to log in to view all snippets, user profiles, perhaps even other rep…
Hi! I'm the PM at GitLab who works on Snippets, so thanks for providing this feedback. We do have Recaptcha support which can be configured - are you seeing these kinds of issues with that enabled/configured? One item that is on the roadmap that is coming and may be of interest is `Optional Admin Approval for local user sign up` - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/4491 . I'm not in the group working on tha…
There need to be other ways to reach out to users who block Google.
I never checked out gitlab but the name always made it seem like a github copycat. If you want to differentiate your product why not choose a name that rings different to your competitor? And now I finally went and browsed some repositories and it's clear as that they were very much "inspired" but Github's design, it's practically a github clone, at least in that regard (although something is a bit off in the smoothn…
If you think Gitlab’s a Github clone you must not have seen Gitea.
Anyone thinking of moving to their own Gitlab instance with Gitlab CE-- either stay on Github or prepare to waste your time dealing with user spam bots that pollute your site's search results. In other words-- if you want the common use case for a FOSS project: 1. publicly viewable main repository with publicly viewable issue tracker 2. requirement to log in to view all snippets, user profiles, perhaps even other rep…
Hi! I'm the PM at GitLab who works on Snippets, so thanks for providing this feedback. We do have Recaptcha support which can be configured - are you seeing these kinds of issues with that enabled/configured? One item that is on the roadmap that is coming and may be of interest is `Optional Admin Approval for local user sign up` - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/4491 . I'm not in the group working on tha…
Thanks, I have used Recaptcha for a long time now. It made no difference.
> One item that is on the roadmap that is coming and may be of interest is `Optional Admin Approval for local user sign up` - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/4491.
Yes, that would be a very sensible solution and welcome feature for my use case here.
Unfortunately, from the bottom of that issue tracker:
"Yikes. I'm glad we did the further breakdown and pre-work. It's a bit cringeworthy looking back and seeing I estimated a 5"
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Hi! I'm the PM at GitLab who works on Snippets, so thanks for providing this feedback. We do have Recaptcha support which can be configured - are you seeing these kinds of issues with that enabled/configured? One item that is on the roadmap that is coming and may be of interest is `Optional Admin Approval for local user sign up` - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/4491 . I'm not in the group working on tha…
Hi phikai, I built a privacy friendly alternative to ReCaptcha called FriendlyCaptcha [1], is there a possibility to see this integrated as a more user friendly alternative? Happy to chat (e-mail in profile) [1] https://friendlycaptcha.com/