Remove Asirra integration
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	Kghbln
	Oct 6 2014, 6:47 PM

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According to Microsoft [1] the Asirra service is closing down permanently on October 6, 2014. Thus the integration of the Asirra module should be removed from the codebase of this extension.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/asirra/

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Reference: bz71712

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Mentioned In: T91206: Impossible to create an account or editing a page

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:49 AM

• bzimport added projects: MW-extension-1.24-version, ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension).

• bzimport set Reference to bz71712.

Kghbln created this task.Oct 6 2014, 6:47 PM

(In reply to [[kgh]] from comment #0)

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/asirra/

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gerritadmin wrote:

Change 165218 had a related patch set uploaded by Reedy:
Remove Asirra integration

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165218

gerritadmin wrote:

Change 165221 had a related patch set uploaded by Reedy:
Remove Asirra integration

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165221

gerritadmin wrote:

Change 165221 merged by jenkins-bot:
Remove Asirra integration

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165221

This was a fast one. Thanks for your work! Thus closing as RESOLVED FIXED.

Only the twn patch was merged for now

Appears pretty awkward but yeah, that true. Sorry for closing this prematurely.