Enable $wgCaptchaDeleteOnSolve
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	Reedy
	Nov 4 2016, 6:59 PM

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Eventually, we should probably enable $wgCaptchaDeleteOnSolve, probably in conjunction with T150029, and it being changed from monthly to either weekly, or even daily....

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Status	Assigned	Task
		Restricted Task
Open	None	T150049 Enable $wgCaptchaDeleteOnSolve
Resolved	Reedy	T150029 Create cronjob for regular captcha regeneration
Resolved	Reedy	T151244 Add parameter to delete old captchas in GenerateFancyCaptchas
Resolved	Reedy	T157736 Speed up captcha generation
Resolved	Florian	T157734 Add threading to captcha.py
Resolved	Reedy	T157738 Use doQuickOperations instead of foreach loops calling quickStore/quickStore
Resolved	Reedy	T157737 Add timing instrumentation to GenerateFancyCaptchas.php
Resolved	Reedy	T157888 Make captcha(-old)?.py python3 compatible

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Reedy created this task.Nov 4 2016, 6:59 PM

Restricted Application added subscribers: JEumerus, Matanya, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptNov 4 2016, 6:59 PM

Reedy added a subtask: T150029: Create cronjob for regular captcha regeneration.Nov 4 2016, 6:59 PM

Reedy added a parent task: Restricted Task.Nov 4 2016, 7:11 PM

Platonides added a subscriber: Platonides.Nov 13 2016, 11:51 PM

Reedy mentioned this in T150029: Create cronjob for regular captcha regeneration.Nov 16 2016, 7:21 PM

Reedy mentioned this in T151244: Add parameter to delete old captchas in GenerateFancyCaptchas.Nov 21 2016, 8:56 PM

Beetstra added a subscriber: Beetstra.Nov 29 2016, 8:28 AM

Krenair moved this task from Backlog to External on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.Dec 10 2016, 4:11 PM

Reedy closed subtask T150029: Create cronjob for regular captcha regeneration as Resolved.Feb 9 2017, 8:52 PM

Poking at T152219... It would seem we serve up around 15k captchas a day... And upto 24k passed? There's something kooky about the stats

https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/authentication-metrics?panelId=7&fullscreen&from=now-7d&to=now looks more reasonable...

Generating captchas is slow...

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                                         
30746 www-data  20   0   63832  17160   3896 R 100.0  0.1  17:38.11 python

Reedy mentioned this in T157734: Add threading to captcha.py.Feb 9 2017, 9:14 PM

Reedy added a subtask: T157736: Speed up captcha generation.Feb 9 2017, 9:34 PM

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Reedy mentioned this in T174877: Spambots as IP addresses and as accounts again prolific within WMF wikis.Sep 4 2017, 1:43 AM

Reedy closed subtask T157736: Speed up captcha generation as Resolved.Oct 26 2017, 6:54 PM

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