Hi Pine,
sent a message (
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Recent_changes_patrol=906393864=902955627)
to Wikipedia talk:Recent changes patrol. Technical village pump receives
tech news, so I believe it isn't necessary to write an explicit message
there.
I totally
Hi Martin,
I think that putting the info in Tech News is a good idea. I would suggest
reaching out to wikis that get large volumes of new users to ask for input
from patrollers and other users who could be affected. Here are a few
places that I would recommend on ENWP for short notices regarding
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
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
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
