Hi Pine,
well, I'm a patroller, admin and a checkuser myself, and as you know, I
don't see a problem with this change :-). Anyway, I'm just one of them. At
least in cswiki, admns don't have issues with manually confirming users on
request by course coordinator, autoconfirmed shouldn't be a big deal.
Don't know how to consult (all) patrollers etc., IIRC there is no central
list for them or anything like that. Feel free to forward my message to
anywhere you think it is helpful (please, ping me/CC me in such messages,
so I can watch the conversation on that place as well).
I've added
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech%2FNews%2F2019%2F30&type=revision&diff=19203494&oldid=19203433>this
to next tech news, to notify about this change more widely than "just" on
wikitech-l.
Martin
pá 12. 7. 2019 v 0:05 odesílatel Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> napsal:
Hi Martin,
I'm not familiar with all of the information about how WMF currently uses
CAPTCHAs, but I suggest being careful about doing anything that could add
to the workloads of volunteer patrollers, admins, and checkusers. My
feeling is that you should consult with people who are most likely to get
more work as a result of this change, even if you think that any negative
impact will be negligible. There may be some requests for carefully
designed tests to ensure that any changes do not result in surprise
increases to workloads for existing volunteers who already have more than
enough work to do.
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:37 PM Martin Urbanec <martin.urbanec(a)wikimedia.cz
wrote:
> Hi,
> I created
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227487, which proposes to
add
skipcaptcha to all users coming from
throttle-exempted IP addresses (see
/wmf-config/throttle.php in operations/mediawiki-config for that). This
can
> make some events go more smoothly. Given users coming from such addresses
> are generally trusted, this shouldn't be an issue IMHO.
> What do the others think?
> Martin
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