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ConfirmEdit prevents creation of blank pages with infinite loop of confirmations
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MediaWiki 1.25.3
ConfirmEdit 1.3
ConfirmEdit is set to use QuestyCaptcha, and to confirm upon page creation.

Steps: When I try to save a new blank page, MediaWiki asks if I'm sure I want to create a blank page. I confirm this by clicking the save button again. Then ConfirmEdit gives me a captcha, which I answer correctly, and I click the save button again. Then MediaWiki asks if I'm sure I want to create a blank page again. And so on. I expected that I would only have to do each confirmation once, and then the page would save.

The page happened to be a user talk page (my own), in case it makes a difference. Also possibly interesting: QuestyCaptcha seems to be giving the same question over and over again as I go back and forth between the two different confirmations.

I am not an administrator on this wiki (though I should be in a few months at most), so I might not be able to help as much.

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PointyOintment created this task.May 26 2016, 2:39 PM
Restricted Application added subscribers: Zppix, Florian, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 26 2016, 2:39 PM
Aklapper added a comment.May 30 2016, 8:15 AM

Thanks for reporting this.

Is this a public wiki that could be linked to?
Do you know if other users face the same problem?
Does this also happen with another browser (which one)?

Umherirrender subscribed.May 30 2016, 5:48 PM

Same problem as with edit summary, see T12729

PointyOintment added a comment.Jun 21 2016, 8:12 AM

Protospace Wiki

I don't know if other users experience this; I will try to find out.

I have only tried it in Chrome so far; I will also try Firefox when I can.

Florian added a comment.Jun 23 2016, 12:30 AM

Hi,

thanks for your report, but unfortunately I can't reproduce the problem. If I try to create a blank page, I've to solve the captcha, after that I'll get the message, if I really want to create a blank page. I've to solve the CAPTCHA again and click "Save page". After that, my page is saved successfully. I tested it with the MediaWiki 1.25 release[1].

However, if I read your report correctly, you will be asked for a CAPTCHA only after clicking the save page button the second time. This sounds a bit unreasonable for me, as the only condition where you get a CAPTCHA in specific cases, only, is the addurl trigger, which (on the other hand) triggers a CAPTCHA only, if a link is added. So, could you please post the ConfirmEdit configuration, too?

matmarex closed this task as Invalid.Jan 6 2021, 9:52 PM
matmarex subscribed.

I also could not reproduce.

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