[Wikimedia-l] What is the wikipedia http API address now?

Now all previously http URLs redirect to https. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page also still mentions the old http address that now redirects. What is the new purely http API address? I need to know the hit of https on various processes. Yuri __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Andy Mabbett 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. > >

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 24 -- 17 June 2015

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

We shall miss you. On 19 June 2015 at 09:30, Andrea Zanni wrote: > Goodbye Fabrice, and thank you for all your enthusiasm. > It was very appreciated :-) > Good luck! > > Aubrey > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Michael Jahn > wrote: > > > May your next steps be joyful, thrilling and challeng

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

Partially OT: re " Sadly it got marked as resolved because there was something that looked similar to developers, though not of course to potential users." I've had a similar experience at Phabricator with respect to dump problems. Phabricator as it is used is really for WMF pros only, even thoug

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

On 06/19/2015 05:54 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote: Earlier this year as a result of the glam organisers event in Paris I made a proposal at bugzilla for an event organisers useright. This would have allowed us to circumvent this problem at those editathons that are targeted at newbies, and it got

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

Hi, I agree with Andrew that is not practical to whitelist ip addresses as a primary method of overcoming account creation/ CAPTCHA issues at events. Organizers often will not know the ip range in advance because of changes in the address, or last minute changes in the location of the event. The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

It's true that events *can* get whitelisted, but this is a very complex method. It relies on the organiser knowing the IP ranges in advance, and knowing who to contact at WMF - and on WMF having the time to deal with it. It would rapidly break down if we needed to use this method for every small tr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

Events sometimes get whitelisted for account creation purposes: https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/throttle.php.txt The exceptions there there could be made to set $wgCaptchaWhitelistIP too. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:54 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > alternatively perhaps we could whitelist certain d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

Yes, I think it's a great idea! T34695 has been assigned to me for a while, but I'd use some help. Il 19/06/2015 16:17, Eduardo Testart ha scritto: Hi all, I know this might be a bit off topic but I'll risk it anyways. One told me a couple weeks ago

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

On 19 June 2015 at 14:58, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 19 June 2015 at 13:54, WereSpielChequers > wrote: > >> Earlier this year as a result of the glam organisers event in Paris I made a >> proposal at bugzilla for an event organisers useright. This would have >> allowed us to circumvent this prob

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

Hi all, I know this might be a bit off topic but I'll risk it anyways. One told me a couple weeks ago that CAPTCHA (at least one CAPTCHA) was created or used to transcribe documents bit by bit, each word you enter corresponds to a two word link, that when it reaches so many equal responses is mar

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

ThrottleOverride extension is not deployed on WMF cluster[1] so your best bet is to create a new bug which is already deployed on WMF cluster. [1] this means even if this is fixed, you will not see the fixed code on wikimedia wikis. -- Revi https://www.revi.pe.kr -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 6.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

On 19 June 2015 at 13:54, WereSpielChequers wrote: > Earlier this year as a result of the glam organisers event in Paris I made a > proposal at bugzilla for an event organisers useright. This would have > allowed us to circumvent this problem at those editathons that are targeted > at newbies,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

Interesting. I see that you opened the task for the user-right, but this is a result of a decision to make a catch-all fix for several problems. I think the capcha problem is extremely annoying and goes way beyond the scope of the one-off edit-a-thon, so this specific issue should have its own task

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

I'm tempted to point out that this mainly affects new editors who cite their edits, other new editors will get bitten in other ways. But the internet is not the best venue for irony. More practically, if you have a tame admin on tap then you can reduce this and other problems at editathons by s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

Cluebot only exists on English Wikipedia, and remember that English Wikipedia is not a standard, just another wmf wiki with the largest userbase. -- Revi https://revi.me -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 6. 19. 오전 6:06에 "James Heilman" 님이 작성: > Yes CAPTCHA is a pain. Yes it prevents bots from spammin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

Goodbye Fabrice, and thank you for all your enthusiasm. It was very appreciated :-) Good luck! Aubrey On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Michael Jahn wrote: > May your next steps be joyful, thrilling and challenging. All the best to > you, Fabrice! > Michael > > 2015-06-18 18:25 GMT+02:00 Fabrice