On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
[I'm posting this here because although the experiences described relate to en.WP, I'm sure it applies to other projects as well]
I have trained over 100 people to edit Wikipedia this year; in around a dozen different sessions.
Not a single session has occurred, when someone has not had a problem with our CAPTCHA interface. Often, several editors in a single sesison are confused.
A user saves an edit, and the system responds with the requirement for them to complete a CAPTCHA .
Andy, have any of your sessions been using the VisualEditor? I always steered away from VE when conducting wiki training, but I hear it has improved and maybe you've been using it during your training.
Is that part of the problem? I see an old and very neglected task about that here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72266
Seems bizarre that task is still unresolved when WMF is proposing to enable VisualEditor for new accounts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Gradual...
-- John Vandenberg