Basically, nobody seemed to like my approach of adapting the existing hacky captcha interface for action=edit to action=createaccount.
I would recommend totally rewriting the captcha plugin system in ConfirmEdit to not be awful, and devise a more sustainable and extensible API for creating accounts and displaying confirmation screens.
It'd be way faster to tidy up and merge the existing patch and use that 'for now', but as they say "temporary solutions often end up becoming permanent"
-- brion
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:33 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.comwrote:
hi,
yuvi said he is not able to add account creation to the wlm mobile app because the mw api is not usable. there is a bug filed in march, now approaching 6 months age: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46072 with priority "high", which means according to andre klapper: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla/Fields#Priority
"Not the next task, but should be fixed soon. Depending on teams & manpower this can take between one and six months."
who needs to do what to get this fixed? (sorry for crossposting to wikitech, as i understood this is not a mobile problem ...)
rupert.
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sadly not for this contest. The API to create accounts never reached enough maturity while this app was in development.
Background info here : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Akshay.agarwal
Thats why we dont require it to save images for later upload. I agree that this would be great to have in the future.
--tomasz
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com wrote:
2012/9/1 rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com:
hi philip,
would it be possible to add an account creation screen to the wlm
mobile app?
I posted the same request here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feedba...
a couple of days ago.
Cristian
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