Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:37:56 UTC
When an anonymous user attempted to add a external link to an article, he is required to solve the captcha, and when submitting his edit again, he triggered the local Abuse Filter and got a warning. But this is a false-positive. And after clicking the "submit" button for a second time, he is required to solve the captcha again. Seems this is a problem between the AF and the captcha. Perhaps the user should only be required to solve the captcha once, not twice. Best regards.
The way we treat anonymous users nowadays, sometimes I'm amazed we even still get contributions...
(In reply to comment #0) > When an anonymous user attempted to add a external link to an article, .. he > triggered the local Abuse Filter and got a warning. Which project was this on? Which edit filter was triggered?
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #0) > > When an anonymous user attempted to add a external link to an article, .. he > > triggered the local Abuse Filter and got a warning. > > Which project was this on? Which edit filter was triggered? It happens on pt.wikipedia, for instance, where CAPTCHA is required at every edit until you are autoconfirmed.
I confirm this happened a lot on Portuguese Wikipedia.
Is this still happening? Can we just turn off the AbuseFilter for this?
If this is still happening, it's completely unacceptable. Setting to a higher priority.
This seems similar to bug 10729: The fact that the user already solved the CAPTCHA is forgotten when another hook (AbuseFilter in this case, edit summary reminder in the other) prevents you from saving, which means you have to solve the CAPTCHA twice.