[QA] possible test data issue to be aware of: random users in beta/test2wiki

Fri Feb 7 22:46:35 UTC 2014

Take a look at

https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FMobileFrontend/f3e94049aefa0833197ef6bf12de93503dcefee6/tests%2Fbrowser%2Ffeatures%2Fstep_definitions%2Fcommon_steps.rb#L40

>From the Mobile 'alpha' interface, a logged-in user can create a new user
with CAPTCHA.

-Chris

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> As of today, we have some tests for MobileFrontend that are not only
>> creating random wiki articles, but also are creating random users named for
>> example "User:NewUser1391202666" where the number part is actually a
>> timestamp.
>
>
> Are you saying we are now able to create users via API/web interface at
> test2.wikipedia.org and/or en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org? As far as I
> remember that was not possible because of CAPTCHA.
>
> Željko
>
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