Hi Pine, well, I'm a patroller, admin and a checkuser myself, and as you know, I don't see a problem with this change :-). Anyway, I'm just one of them. At least in cswiki, admns don't have issues with manually confirming users on request by course coordinator, autoconfirmed shouldn't be a big deal.
Don't know how to consult (all) patrollers etc., IIRC there is no central list for them or anything like that. Feel free to forward my message to anywhere you think it is helpful (please, ping me/CC me in such messages, so I can watch the conversation on that place as well). I've added <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F30&type=revision&diff=19203494&oldid=19203433>this to next tech news, to notify about this change more widely than "just" on wikitech-l. Martin pá 12. 7. 2019 v 0:05 odesílatel Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> napsal: > Hi Martin, > > I'm not familiar with all of the information about how WMF currently uses > CAPTCHAs, but I suggest being careful about doing anything that could add > to the workloads of volunteer patrollers, admins, and checkusers. My > feeling is that you should consult with people who are most likely to get > more work as a result of this change, even if you think that any negative > impact will be negligible. There may be some requests for carefully > designed tests to ensure that any changes do not result in surprise > increases to workloads for existing volunteers who already have more than > enough work to do. > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:37 PM Martin Urbanec <martin.urba...@wikimedia.cz > > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I created https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227487, which proposes to > add > > skipcaptcha to all users coming from throttle-exempted IP addresses (see > > /wmf-config/throttle.php in operations/mediawiki-config for that). This > can > > make some events go more smoothly. Given users coming from such addresses > > are generally trusted, this shouldn't be an issue IMHO. > > > > What do the others think? > > > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
