(Reference) URI's cannot be created by non-admin users
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	Evelien_WMDE
	Jan 24 2023, 9:49 AM

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I'm a non-admin user on https://florencia.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page. When trying to add a reference using property "Reference URL" of type URL with a link, I get the error below:

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I get the same error when adding a normal statement with property type URL and a URL.

We'd like for all successfully registered users to be able to contribute to a Wikibase. There should be no errors.

Issue likely caused by locking down URL entries to reduce spam, since its' a spam sensitive case.
Multiple tickets surrounding this issue have been created, see mentioned and duplicate.

Suspicion: There's a Captcha somewhere that's not visible.
Possible fix we tried but did not work:

LocalSettings.php

// Don't try to let users answer captchas if they try to add links
// on either Item or Property pages. Bug T86453
$wgCaptchaTriggersOnNamespace[WB_NS_ITEM]['addurl'] = false;
$wgCaptchaTriggersOnNamespace[WB_NS_PROPERTY]['addurl'] = false;

Further work to investigate this issue:

Using a debugger look for errors thrown when trying to make edits like this

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T330182: Saving URL statements as non-admin users fails
Mentioned Here: T318718: Saving URL fails on Wikibase.cloud
T310419: Useless red error pops up when non confirmed user tries to add a URL on wbcloud
T86453: Cannot add url values as an anonymous or unconfirmed user
T301243: Wikibase Bug: Unclear error message "save has failed"
T310421: Disable captcha in entity namespaces until T87854 is fixed

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Evelien_WMDE created this task.Jan 24 2023, 9:49 AM

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Evelien_WMDE renamed this task from Reference URI's cannot be created by non-admin users to (Reference) URI's cannot be created by non-admin users.Jan 24 2023, 10:10 AM

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Evelien_WMDE merged a task: T310419: Useless red error pops up when non confirmed user tries to add a URL on wbcloud.

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Deniz_WMDE mentioned this in T330182: Saving URL statements as non-admin users fails.Feb 23 2023, 2:44 PM

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Rosalie_WMDE moved this task from Sprint Backlog to Doing on the Wikibase Cloud (WB Cloud Sprint 15) board.Mar 3 2023, 7:27 AM

So basically you cannot add external URL, only internal one. Anyway the setting @Tarrow mentioned doesn't exist in LocalSettings.php

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Cool! So you found an exception to the issue: local URLs work fine.

Did you try adding those variables to LocalSettings.php? Not all variables that you can set are already set to something in LocalSettings.php. They may just be using a default.

I used to have that same error of my wikibase.cloud https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/, for which I originally reported T310419 (issue is closed now)

But it seems to have been magically solved now, I can now add external URLs without error, see eg https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Property:P43, to which I added the Wikidata URI (see history)

My credentials are emailconfirmed and Autoconfirmed users

https://kbtestwikibase.wikibase.cloud/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUserRights&user=OlafJanssen

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Helpful history and context:

Old ticket/closed as duplicate: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310419 holds helpful technical details
Another duplicate with context: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318718
Github issue: https://github.com/wbstack/mediawiki/issues/48

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I finally fix the bug. Basically you need to add $ceAllowConfirmedEmail = true; in LocalSettings.php to allow email confirmed users to add url (see this)

Also we forgot to add $wgAllowConfirmedEmail = true;, which means $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['skipcaptcha'] = true; doesn't work.

The initial fix

$wgCaptchaTriggersOnNamespace[WB_NS_ITEM]['addurl'] = false;
$wgCaptchaTriggersOnNamespace[WB_NS_PROPERTY]['addurl'] = false;

doesn't work because WB_NS_ITEM and WB_NS_PROPERTY are not defined.

Checkout the PR:
https://github.com/wbstack/mediawiki/pull/356

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prod deploy PR: https://github.com/wmde/wbaas-deploy/pull/912

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@Deniz_WMDE / @dang Tested and verified that it works, thanks folks :)

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