On Dec 18, 2007 7:36 PM, Brianna Laugher <<a href="mailto:brianna.laugher@gmail.com">brianna.laugher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://www.pineight.com/rant/captcha/" target="_blank">http://www.pineight.com/rant/captcha/</a><br><br>Commons is listed under "confusing examples":<br><br>Wikimedia Commons links to Special:Captcha which mentions (but does
<br>not obviously link to) Commons:Contact us which links to Commons:Help<br>desk, which permits anonymous posting. (Some other Wikimedia sites,<br>such as English language Wiktionary, use the same CAPTCHA. The English<br>
language Wikipedia does not use a CAPTCHA at all.)<br><br>Presumably they're referring to signing up for a new account. (I think<br>captchas are also triggered when anon users introduce new external<br>links.)<br><br>
Can anyone confirm or deny that enwp doesn't have the same captcha?? I<br>thought all WMF projects had the same one now?<br><font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>When creating an account on the English Wikipedia (
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup</a>) it has a captcha as well, but the text reads the following:
<br><br><p>"<i>To help protect against automated account creation, please enter the words
that appear below in the box (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Captcha/help" title="Special:Captcha/help">more info</a>):
</i></p><p><i>Unable to see the image? An administrator can <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_an_account" title="Wikipedia:Request an account">create an account for you</a>.</i>"</p><font size="1">
(in case links don't show up, they are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Captcha/help">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Captcha/help</a> for "more info" and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_an_account">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_an_account</a> for "create an account for you")<br><font size="2"><br>Just a more specific page to go to if you want an admin to create your account, instead of asking people to request assistance at the help desk. I haven't checked other wikis, can't speak for them...
<br><br>-- <br>Ayelie<br> (Editor at Large)<br></font></font><br></div></div><br>