Re: [Wiki-research-l] Visual Editor experiment might have a problem ...

2015-08-16 Thread Pine W
I thought that someone was already working on CAPTCHA improvents, but I can't remember who, and I haven't heard anything recently which makes me wonder if this was de-prioritized. J-mo, do you happen to know the status of the CAPTCHA work is, and who, if anyone, is active on that project? Pine On

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Visual Editor experiment might have a problem ...

2015-08-16 Thread Kerry Raymond
Thanks for the explanation about the opt-in. It wasn’t a problem – just a surprise for me. However, the Captcha problem isn’t the issue of whether or not there are Captchas. I was expecting Captchas on a new user account. But I wasn’t expecting some bug that prevented the user from Saving th

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Visual Editor experiment might have a problem ...

2015-08-16 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi Kerry, there is an experiment going on that randomly opts half if new users into V/E and leaves half using the classic editor. That should account for why one of your newbies had been opted in but not the other. Captcha when adding citations is a longstanding problem, we need Captcha on acc

[Wiki-research-l] Visual Editor experiment might have a problem ...

2015-08-16 Thread Kerry Raymond
I ran my first training session using the Visual Editor this morning and hit what appeared to be a show-shopping bug. It appeared that the two new users (thankfully I had only 2) could not create a citation. They found themselves in an infinite loop of Save Page with Capcha when they tried to creat