Is this something that an en.wp admin can solve, or does it need developer intervention?
Mike On 15 Jun 2010, at 19:54, Carl (CBM) wrote: > At the moment, logins to enwiki from nightshade.toolserver.org are > throwing up a CAPTCHA. This is easy to check by loading > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin in w3m or another > browser from that host. Logins from willow.toolserver.org do not > require a CAPTCHA at the moment. > > The CAPTCHA requirement makes it impossible for bots to log in via the > API. The fundamental problem is that bots are run automatically, of > course. But the API also does not report the CAPTCHA requirement at > all, so bot developers are given a "WrongPass" error that they have to > investigate to find that a CAPTCHA is the problem. > > This CAPTCHA situation has happened before, most likely due to some > erroneous bot on toolserver triggering it. But individual bot > operators cannot fix it, and so to them it has the same effect as a > toolserver outage. Moreover, whatever bot operator caused it probably > has no way to know it was them. > > It seems like this may take collaboration between toolserver and > wikimedia to fix, but probably the fix will involve at least some > change on the wikimedia side. So I have filed a bug at > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23982 to coordinate > discussion there. > > - Carl > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
