Last modified: 2014-04-02 22:39:42 UTC
I edited a Wikipedia article without logging in and didn't even see the CAPTCHA form. I thought it was odd that the edit page came back and scrolled up to find the test. Had I not been familiar with MediaWiki, my edits probably would have been lost. The test should be made more obvious somehow.
It's a big huge thing at the top of the page, right in your face. There's no way to miss it.
If you have increased the size of the edit textarea for the page and have scrolled down a bit, the test appears above the top of the screen after the refresh. I'm an experienced user (started with Gopher) and *I* missed it, so others could too. It is neither productive nor accurate to flippantly say "there's no way to miss it" when that is exactly what I am reporting.
Well, I'm not sure what we can do about not seeing things after scrolling down to skip over them. :) Can you clarify the workflow of this a bit more? Is something automatically scrolling you? Have you set that up manually in your user JS or does that happen by itself? Can you list your custom user preference that causes the extra-large text area? What browser are you using? Does it only happen with some browsers or all?
Sure. When I edited the article, I didn't remember the tag that I wanted to include so I scrolled down so the text form was in the top of my browser (SeaMonkey 1.5a) and I could see the markup shortcuts at the bottom. I edited the page and saved it. The page came back positioned the same place (scrolled down) and I thought it was odd that it didn't go to the article. I scrolled to the top of the page to see if there were any errors and didn't see anything in the top (above the toolbar) but then noticed the image from the test between the toolbar and the textarea. I haven't tried it with other browsers and I haven't encountered this before because I'm normally logged in. I was using a default profile at the time with no userChrome or userContent changes. What I'd suggest is either putting it in a DIV with a border and background or at least changing the color of the notice so it stands out better. Thanks.
Quick testing in Firefox seems to show that the textarea is scrolled to the last cursor location, but the web page as a whole starts at the top as normal. Can you confirm whether behavior is the same or different in Seamonkey? Did the browser scroll down below the form on its own, or did you scroll down below the form manually, ignoring it?
Ugh, I'm braindead today. :P I see what you mean... changed summary to clarify.
It was scrolled down on its own, but perhaps it was a fluke. Thanks for clearing up the summary!
(In reply to comment #4) > What I'd suggest is either putting it in a DIV with a border and background or > at least changing the color of the notice so it stands out better. I second that. I was recently speaking so someone who was editing an article and though the modifications had been saved when actually the captcha was being displayed. So, maybe the captcha could be actually displayed after the user clicks "Preview", so that there's less misunderstanding.
To make the captcha scroll into view, it could be given the input focus. But the decision to do this should probably rest with each page displaying a captcha.
