Greetings Brianna,
When making an account, or getting the password wrong, on English Wikipedia, there is a
CAPTCHA. When adding external links as an anon. or as a new account, there is a math
formula you need to perform.Regards, Zachary Harden> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:36:40
+1100> From: brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Commons-l] Commons in the CAPTCHA Hall of Shame> >
http://www.pineight.com/rant/captcha/> > Commons is listed under "confusing
examples":> > Wikimedia Commons links to Special:Captcha which mentions (but
does> not obviously link to) Commons:Contact us which links to Commons:Help> desk,
which permits anonymous posting. (Some other Wikimedia sites,> such as English language
Wiktionary, use the same CAPTCHA. The English> language Wikipedia does not use a
CAPTCHA at all.)> > Presumably they're referring to signing up for a new
account. (I think> captchas are also triggered when anon users introduce new
external> links.)> > Can anyone confirm or deny that enwp doesn't have the
same captcha?? I> thought all WMF projects had the same one now?> > cheers>
Brianna> > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right
moment:>
http://modernthings.org/> >
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