and communities
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Hi Kerry,
IIUC, the original bug was https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109113 (Can't
successfully complete a second CAPTCHA in VisualEditor's save dialog
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Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Visual Editor experiment might have a problem ...
Hi Kerry,
IIUC, the original bug was https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109113 (Can't
successfully complete a second CAPTCHA in VisualEditor's save dialog) which
started last Thursday
Hi Kerry,
IIUC, the original bug was https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109113 (Can't
successfully complete a second CAPTCHA in VisualEditor's save dialog)
which started last Thursday, and was fixed this morning (and the fix should
now already be deployed to the production wikis). It was only an
No, I'm not aware of any ongoing CAPTCHA work. There was a long thread on
wikitech-l starting last December (Our CAPTCHA is very unfriendly) that
resulted in some Phabricator tasks and a wikipage. But I don't know of any
active development plans.
By the way: Aaron's in transition (of the timezone
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
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
of getting it right.
Kerry
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Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Visual Editor
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
