Forum:Captcha problem
I'm having a problem. I try to put the {{PC|name=Zando|realm=Eitrigg|loc=US|wpuser=Pittsburghmuggle}} header on my character subpages, and the captcha won't work (there must be weblinks buried in the template). I select all the cats, click "post" and it just gives me another captcha "pick the cats!". Unless I've forgotten what cats look like, this is a problem. --Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 11:46, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- I have never encountered this problem. Can you provide any screenshots? You can use GIMP to modify the screenshot then upload it to imgur. --g0urra[T҂C] 17:31, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- I'm not sure how I would provide a screenshot of this problem (I know how to take one), as I fill out the captcha properly and click post and it just gives me the captcha again and again. I just tried doing it in Internet Explorer instead of Firefox and had the same result.--Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 22:16, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- Do you have cookies enabled? -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 22:40, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- Been having the same problem. Been using Google Chrome, and I have cookies enabled. However, I've had the same problem on another Curse wiki site. Whatever the issue is, it isn't confined to Wowpedia.--Amh3jhw6 (talk) 22:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- Someone else, too? Whew! And yeah - the cookies can't be the problem because I had the same issue with MSIE, which I never use.--Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 02:21, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
- Do you have cookies enabled? -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 22:40, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- I'm not sure how I would provide a screenshot of this problem (I know how to take one), as I fill out the captcha properly and click post and it just gives me the captcha again and again. I just tried doing it in Internet Explorer instead of Firefox and had the same result.--Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 22:16, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- I was going to say that I've had to re-do CAPTCHAs too - despite being pretty confident in my abilities to identify cats from dogs in one look - but they always go through the second time, so maybe everyone makes mistakes. But this sounds like a more intractable problem. By the way, I keep third party cookies disabled on my browser, but I haven't had a problem with the CAPTCHA other than what I just described.
- Whatever it is, I hope the CAPTCHA format can be retained. Looking at pets is so much nice than squinting at squiggly letters. - jerodast (talk) 16:41, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
- Dunno if they did anything but I finally got through yesterday. And yeah - I like the "pick the kitties" over warped words.--Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 14:17, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
From our perspective, you're not supposed to be getting those CAPTCHAs in the first place, no matter what form they take. Generally, the way it should work is this: either the edit should go through without requiring a CAPTCHA response (either because you're linking to a domain we've whitelisted, like the battle.net link in your example, or because you've been around long enough), or be rejected outright (new accounts adding non-whitelisted links -- this is mostly spam). The CAPTCHA confirmation step is an annoyance: it seems to manage to both prevent the good edits and fail to stop the bad ones. This seems to be a technical issue on gamepedia's side, so there's very little we can do about it on sysop level. — foxlit (talk) 20:58, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
We were told that there was a fix for a small issue related to CAPTCHA prompts about a week ago. If anyone is still experiencing problems with the cats, please feel free to post here or in another forum thread. — foxlit (talk) 23:05, 4 February 2014 (UTC)