hCaptcha: Enable on API account creations on test2wiki
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Our existing code in mediawiki-config disables hCaptcha on API account creations:

	$wgCaptchaTriggers['createaccount'] = [
			'trigger' => true,
			// If this is an API context, use the FancyCaptcha class for now, as mobile apps
			// do not yet support hCaptcha (T379190)
			'class' => ( defined( 'MW_API' ) || defined( 'MW_REST_API' ) ) ?
				'FancyCaptcha' :
				'HCaptcha',
		];

We need to re-enable it for test2wiki only, to facilitate mobile apps team testing.

Acceptance criteria

API account creation requests on test2wiki use hCaptcha, and not FancyCaptcha

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	hCaptcha: Enable on API account creation on test2wiki	Kosta Harlan	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+8 -0

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Dbrant	T379190 Integrate HCaptcha into Account Creation flow on Android
		Resolved		kostajh	T405107 hCaptcha: Enable on API account creations on test2wiki

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kostajh created this task.Sep 19 2025, 1:56 PM

kostajh added subscribers: Dbrant, Tsevener.

Change #1189879 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: Kosta Harlan):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] hCaptcha: Enable on API account creation on test2wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189879

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 19 2025, 2:25 PM

kostajh claimed this task.Sep 22 2025, 6:28 AM

Change #1189879 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] hCaptcha: Enable on API account creation on test2wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189879

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-09-22T06:40:44Z] <kharlan@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1189879|hCaptcha: Enable on API account creation on test2wiki (T405107)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-09-22T07:04:43Z] <kharlan@deploy1003> kharlan: Backport for [[gerrit:1189879|hCaptcha: Enable on API account creation on test2wiki (T405107)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-09-22T07:18:26Z] <kharlan@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1189879|hCaptcha: Enable on API account creation on test2wiki (T405107)]] (duration: 37m 41s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 22 2025, 7:30 AM

kostajh closed this task as Resolved.Sep 22 2025, 10:55 AM

kostajh moved this task from Backlog to Done on the Bot detection and mitigation (WE4.2 hCaptcha account creation trial) board.

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