http://www.pineight.com/rant/captcha/
Commons is listed under "confusing examples":
Wikimedia Commons links to Special:Captcha which mentions (but does not obviously link to) Commons:Contact us which links to Commons:Help desk, which permits anonymous posting. (Some other Wikimedia sites, such as English language Wiktionary, use the same CAPTCHA. The English language Wikipedia does not use a CAPTCHA at all.)
Presumably they're referring to signing up for a new account. (I think captchas are also triggered when anon users introduce new external links.)
Can anyone confirm or deny that enwp doesn't have the same captcha?? I thought all WMF projects had the same one now?
cheers Brianna
Greetings Brianna,
When making an account, or getting the password wrong, on English Wikipedia, there is a CAPTCHA. When adding external links as an anon. or as a new account, there is a math formula you need to perform.Regards, Zachary Harden> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:36:40 +1100> From: brianna.laugher@gmail.com> To: commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Commons-l] Commons in the CAPTCHA Hall of Shame> > http://www.pineight.com/rant/captcha/%3E > Commons is listed under "confusing examples":> > Wikimedia Commons links to Special:Captcha which mentions (but does> not obviously link to) Commons:Contact us which links to Commons:Help> desk, which permits anonymous posting. (Some other Wikimedia sites,> such as English language Wiktionary, use the same CAPTCHA. The English> language Wikipedia does not use a CAPTCHA at all.)> > Presumably they're referring to signing up for a new account. (I think> captchas are also triggered when anon users introduce new external> links.)> > Can anyone confirm or deny that enwp doesn't have the same captcha?? I> thought all WMF projects had the same one now?> > cheers> Brianna> > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment:> http://modernthings.org/%3E > _______________________________________________> Commons-l mailing list> Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l _________________________________________________________________ i’m is proud to present Cause Effect, a series about real people making a difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_Cause_Effect
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Zachary Harden wrote:
Greetings Brianna,
When making an account, or getting the password wrong, on English Wikipedia, there is a CAPTCHA. When adding external links as an anon. or as a new account, there is a math formula you need to perform.
I just checked. I get the full captcha. All foundation wikis have the same captcha (FancyCaptcha). It is sometimes switched to math formulas if captcha images are getting too much bandwidth. Saying that "The English language Wikipedia does not use a CAPTCHA" is completely wrong.
The only difference between languages are the descriptions, which may provide more or less help to "get the account".
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:36:40 +1100 From: brianna.laugher To: commons-l Subject: [Commons-l] Commons in the CAPTCHA Hall of Shame
http://www.pineight.com/rant/captcha/
Commons is listed under "confusing examples":
Wikimedia Commons links to Special:Captcha which mentions (but does not obviously link to) Commons:Contact us which links to Commons:Help desk, which permits anonymous posting. (Some other Wikimedia sites, such as English language Wiktionary, use the same CAPTCHA. The English language Wikipedia does not use a CAPTCHA at all.)
Presumably they're referring to signing up for a new account. (I think captchas are also triggered when anon users introduce new external links.)
Can anyone confirm or deny that enwp doesn't have the same captcha?? I thought all WMF projects had the same one now?
cheers Brianna
The English language Wikipedia only uses a captcha if you type in your password incorrectly.
l On Dec 18, 2007 5:36 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.pineight.com/rant/captcha/
Commons is listed under "confusing examples":
Wikimedia Commons links to Special:Captcha which mentions (but does not obviously link to) Commons:Contact us which links to Commons:Help desk, which permits anonymous posting. (Some other Wikimedia sites, such as English language Wiktionary, use the same CAPTCHA. The English language Wikipedia does not use a CAPTCHA at all.)
Presumably they're referring to signing up for a new account. (I think captchas are also triggered when anon users introduce new external links.)
Can anyone confirm or deny that enwp doesn't have the same captcha?? I thought all WMF projects had the same one now?
cheers Brianna
-- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/
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On Dec 18, 2007 7:36 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.pineight.com/rant/captcha/
Commons is listed under "confusing examples":
Wikimedia Commons links to Special:Captcha which mentions (but does not obviously link to) Commons:Contact us which links to Commons:Help desk, which permits anonymous posting. (Some other Wikimedia sites, such as English language Wiktionary, use the same CAPTCHA. The English language Wikipedia does not use a CAPTCHA at all.)
Presumably they're referring to signing up for a new account. (I think captchas are also triggered when anon users introduce new external links.)
Can anyone confirm or deny that enwp doesn't have the same captcha?? I thought all WMF projects had the same one now?
When creating an account on the English Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup) it has a captcha as well, but the text reads the following:
"*To help protect against automated account creation, please enter the words that appear below in the box (more infohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Captcha/help): *
*Unable to see the image? An administrator can create an account for youhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_an_account .*" (in case links don't show up, they are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Captcha/help for "more info" and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_an_account for "create an account for you")
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...