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Rephrase the "help protect the wiki" CAPTCHA requests
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The message MediaWiki:Asirra-edit is misguiding.
Identifying cats steals susers time while it does not protect against automated edit SPAM at all, no matter how many cats are identified.

I suggest to correct it to more clearly reflect reality.
For instance, "This wiki tries to protect against automated edit spam. It requires that editors pass a test showing that they likely are not bots on each edit. Please select just the cat photos in the box below:"

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Severity: minor
URL: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/About_MediaWiki:Asirra-edit/en_(2)

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Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 12:55 AM
• bzimport added a project: ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension).
• bzimport set Reference to bz38597.
• Purodha created this task.Jul 23 2012, 1:20 PM
Bachsau added a comment.Jul 24 2012, 1:29 AM

I didn't even know my extension is on translate wiki, and in fact it isn't. This message i no part of Extension:Assira, it may be part of that fork in Extension:ConfirmEdit, which I don't support!

I consider Extension:Assira the only official version, and don't bother about mistakes in forks. See bug 38623 for a more detailed description.

Nikerabbit added a comment.Jul 24 2012, 6:37 AM

And now you tell it. I spent considerable amount of time cleaning up the code to have it accepted in ConfirmEdit.

Nikerabbit added a comment.Jul 24 2012, 6:41 AM

Recategorizing to ConfirmEdit extension.

Aklapper added a comment.Dec 30 2012, 10:05 PM

Purodha Blissenbach:

gerritbot added a comment.Aug 11 2013, 8:31 AM

Change 78646 had a related patch set uploaded by Nemo bis:
Rephrase the "help protect the wiki" CAPTCHA requests

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78646

gerritbot added a comment.Sep 1 2013, 4:49 PM

Change 78646 merged by jenkins-bot:
Rephrase the "help protect the wiki" CAPTCHA requests

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78646

Nemo_bis added a comment.Sep 1 2013, 4:53 PM

Approved by Nikerabbit.

Aklapper added a project: Voice & Tone.May 24 2021, 9:37 PM
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