hCaptcha: Conditionally disable the addurl rule
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	kostajh
	Nov 14 2025, 10:36 AM

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The addurl rule was disabled in rOMWC8e16ca50ad20: hCaptcha: Disable addurl trigger for hCaptcha edits / T409822: hCaptcha: Disable addurl rule for the editing trial, given that hCaptcha is evaluated on the edit and create triggers. However, we missed that the rule should only be conditionally disabled, as hCaptcha isn't yet integrated in the API editing pathway.

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Edits made via the API (DiscussionTools, VisualEditor, etc) should continue to have the addurl trigger enabled

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	hCaptcha: Conditionally disable the addurl rule	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+8 -5

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Mentioned Here: T410276: Native Talk interface does not support captcha.
rOMWC8e16ca50ad20: hCaptcha: Disable addurl trigger for hCaptcha edits
T409822: hCaptcha: Disable addurl rule for the editing trial

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kostajh created this task.Nov 14 2025, 10:36 AM

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Change #1205102 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: Kosta Harlan):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] hCaptcha: Conditionally disable the addurl rule

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1205102

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 14 2025, 10:40 AM

kostajh moved this task from Backlog to Needs review on the Product Safety and Integrity (Crepes au Chocolat (Sprint Nov 10 - Nov 28)) board.Nov 14 2025, 10:57 AM

kostajh moved this task from Backlog to In progress on the Bot detection and mitigation (WE4.2 hCaptcha editing trial) board.Nov 14 2025, 11:02 AM

Change #1205102 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] hCaptcha: Conditionally disable the addurl rule

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1205102

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-11-17T09:11:49Z] <kharlan@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1205102|hCaptcha: Conditionally disable the addurl rule (T410123)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-11-17T09:16:18Z] <kharlan@deploy2002> kharlan: Backport for [[gerrit:1205102|hCaptcha: Conditionally disable the addurl rule (T410123)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-11-17T09:22:36Z] <kharlan@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1205102|hCaptcha: Conditionally disable the addurl rule (T410123)]] (duration: 10m 47s)

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 17 2025, 9:30 AM

kostajh moved this task from In progress to QA on the Bot detection and mitigation (WE4.2 hCaptcha editing trial) board.Nov 17 2025, 11:24 AM

kostajh moved this task from Needs review to Needs QA on the Product Safety and Integrity (Crepes au Chocolat (Sprint Nov 10 - Nov 28)) board.

We checked that we could trigger the addurl consequence via the VisualEditor, DiscussionTools and the MobileFrontend (source and visual) yesterday on testwiki.

There are bugs with the way Apps handle captchas T410276, but not related to this work.

hector.arroyo moved this task from QA to Done on the Bot detection and mitigation (WE4.2 hCaptcha editing trial) board.Nov 18 2025, 9:22 AM

kostajh closed this task as Resolved.Nov 18 2025, 10:19 AM

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