Hey All
I have someone helping me add translation done by Translators Without Borders of key medical articles. An issue that slows the work is that many languages require CAPTCHA to save the edits. Is their anyway around this (ie to get an account confirmed in all languages)?
Project is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task...
Technically it should be possible. I believe there's a Request for permissions page or something of the sorts on meta-wiki for this purpose. Somebody with more knowledge can correct me if I'm wrong.
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:23 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Hey All
I have someone helping me add translation done by Translators Without Borders of key medical articles. An issue that slows the work is that many languages require CAPTCHA to save the edits. Is their anyway around this (ie to get an account confirmed in all languages)?
Project is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task...
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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Restrictive wikis for captchas are only a handful (plus pt.wiki which is in "permanent emergency" mode). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newly_registered_user For them you could request confirmed flag at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRP Personally I found it easier to do the required 10, 50 or whatever edits on a userpage. 5 min at most and you're done.
Nemo
On 21/03/13 08:05, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Restrictive wikis for captchas are only a handful (plus pt.wiki which is in "permanent emergency" mode). https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newly_registered_user For them you could request confirmed flag at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRP Personally I found it easier to do the required 10, 50 or whatever edits on a userpage. 5 min at most and you're done.
Nemo
Their problem is likely that their accounts are new, not that those wikis additionally require a minimum number of edits (only a handful of wikis have that).
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:23 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Hey All
I have someone helping me add translation done by Translators Without Borders of key medical articles. An issue that slows the work is that many languages require CAPTCHA to save the edits. Is their anyway around this (ie to get an account confirmed in all languages)?
This doesn't quite solve your problem, but one enhancement that may reduce frustration is the addition of a refresh button on the CAPTCHA ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14230).
This is slowly but surely being worked on at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/44376/
Steven
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