[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: A "refreshing" change to the ConfirmEdit extension

[Steven Walling]

Sorry for cross-posting, but I wanted to make sure more people are aware
this before we deploy it (likely on Thursday the 25th).

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM
Subject: A "refreshing" change to the ConfirmEdit extension
To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects <
wikitech-ambassadors at lists.wikimedia.org>


Hi all,

This is a heads up that we've added a small new feature which hopefully
will make things less painful for users across the projects: the ability to
refresh the CAPTCHA you're presented without refreshing the entire page. It
should work everywhere ConfirmEdit can throw the image CAPTCHA at someone:
account creation, login, the edit form, etc. (It won't modify the simple
math CAPTCHA, and so on.)

The original enhancement request for this (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14230) goes back to 2008. A
patch was submitted back in January by lalei:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/44376/

If you want to test this out yourself before it's deployed, you can use
http://toro.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page

 Forgive my awful pun in the subject line,

-- 
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/