To facilitate analysis around edits and hCaptcha usage, let's create an event in VisualEditorFeatureUse when hcaptcha.execute() is invoked.
Change #1205183 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] hCaptcha: Record hcaptcha.execute() calls in VisualEditorFeatureUse
Change #1205183 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] hCaptcha: Record hcaptcha.execute() calls in VisualEditorFeatureUse
Change #1205558 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.2] hCaptcha: Record hcaptcha.execute() calls in VisualEditorFeatureUse
Change #1205558 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.2] hCaptcha: Record hcaptcha.execute() calls in VisualEditorFeatureUse
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-11-17T08:11:15Z] <kharlan@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1205558|hCaptcha: Record hcaptcha.execute() calls in VisualEditorFeatureUse (T410146)]], [[gerrit:1205224|hCaptcha: Track the interfaceName in open-callback events (T410008 T402767)]]
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-11-17T08:36:09Z] <kharlan@deploy2002> kharlan: Backport for [[gerrit:1205558|hCaptcha: Record hcaptcha.execute() calls in VisualEditorFeatureUse (T410146)]], [[gerrit:1205224|hCaptcha: Track the interfaceName in open-callback events (T410008 T402767)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-11-17T08:53:15Z] <kharlan@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1205558|hCaptcha: Record hcaptcha.execute() calls in VisualEditorFeatureUse (T410146)]], [[gerrit:1205224|hCaptcha: Track the interfaceName in open-callback events (T410008 T402767)]] (duration: 42m 00s)
Publishing an edit in the WikiEditor on testwiki, when I see an hCaptcha challenge, I see two requests to https://intake-analytics.wikimedia.org:
{
"event": {
"user_id": 71434,
"user_is_temp": true,
"user_editcount": 2,
"wiki": "testwiki",
"skin": "vector-2022",
"is_bot": false,
"feature": "hcaptcha",
"action": "execute",
"editor_interface": "wikitext",
"integration": "page",
"platform": "desktop",
"editingSessionId": "781b558ba9fb797a08c1632fe335e62b",
"is_oversample": false
},
"schema": "VisualEditorFeatureUse",
"webHost": "test.wikipedia.org",
"wiki": "testwiki",
"$schema": "/analytics/legacy/visualeditorfeatureuse/1.1.0",
"client_dt": "2025-11-18T08:41:36.088Z",
"meta": {
"stream": "eventlogging_VisualEditorFeatureUse",
"domain": "test.wikipedia.org"
}
}{
"event": {
"user_id": 71434,
"user_is_temp": true,
"user_editcount": 2,
"wiki": "testwiki",
"skin": "vector-2022",
"is_bot": false,
"feature": "hcaptcha",
"action": "open",
"editor_interface": "wikitext",
"integration": "page",
"platform": "desktop",
"editingSessionId": "781b558ba9fb797a08c1632fe335e62b",
"is_oversample": false
},
"schema": "VisualEditorFeatureUse",
"webHost": "test.wikipedia.org",
"wiki": "testwiki",
"$schema": "/analytics/legacy/visualeditorfeatureuse/1.1.0",
"client_dt": "2025-11-18T08:41:39.579Z",
"meta": {
"stream": "eventlogging_VisualEditorFeatureUse",
"domain": "test.wikipedia.org"
}
}When I don't see the challenge, I only see the first request.