Last modified: 2013-04-22 16:16:23 UTC
The message MediaWiki:Recaptcha-createaccount " To help protect against automated account creation, please type the two words you see in the box below: " is both wrong, euphemistic, and misleading. Users are not protected from SPAM or automated account creations, when they enter two words, and the wiki isn't either; entering two word only wastes users time, and creats some the likelyhood for them having to re-enter their passwords an captchas serveral times. The only protection is automats and SPAMbots not being able to supply the two words, an assumption having some probability to itself, and _this_ is what sould be communicated.
There are several messages having this problem in Extension:reCAPTCHA I suggest to extract the invariant "enter the two words in the box below." part into a message on its own, and have it shown before the explanatory parts.
Created attachment 8181 [details] fixed recaptcha extension message file
*Bulk BZ Change: +Patch to open bugs with patches attached that are missing the keyword*
Comment on attachment 8181 [details] fixed recaptcha extension message file Patch isn't actually a path, and is fairly useless
Committed Gerrit change #24208.
