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Bug 20661 - Conflict between the Abuse Filter and the Captcha
Conflict between the Abuse Filter and the Captcha
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
AbuseFilter (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: High major with 2 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-09-16 13:55 UTC by Jimmy Xu
Modified: 2014-02-12 23:37 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Description Jimmy Xu 2009-09-16 13:55:21 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.
Comment 1 Gurch 2009-09-16 15:07:51 UTC
The way we treat anonymous users nowadays, sometimes I'm amazed we even still get contributions...
Comment 2 John Mark Vandenberg 2011-05-06 11:18:30 UTC
(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?
Comment 3 Fabio Azevedo 2012-08-03 19:55:48 UTC
(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.
Comment 4 Helder 2013-07-15 20:44:22 UTC
I confirm this happened a lot on Portuguese Wikipedia.
Comment 5 Steven Walling 2013-09-26 04:30:31 UTC
Is this still happening? Can we just turn off the AbuseFilter for this?
Comment 6 Steven Walling 2013-09-26 04:31:04 UTC
If this is still happening, it's completely unacceptable. Setting to a higher priority.
Comment 7 Michael M. 2013-09-26 10:03:51 UTC
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.

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