Cannot add url values as an anonymous or unconfirmed user
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	aude
	Jan 10 2015, 9:07 PM

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I am unable to save url values (for url data type) when I am logged out or am a new (unconfirmed user) on Wikidata. (also happens on master or beta.wikidata)

http://snag.gy/3R0pG.jpg

This appears to be caused by changes in the ConfirmEdit extension.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177746/

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Exempt Item and Property namespaces from ConfirmEdit	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+5 -0

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T327752: (Reference) URI's cannot be created by non-admin users
T310421: Disable captcha in entity namespaces until T87854 is fixed
rOMWCdce70c3d1b29: Exempt Item and Property namespaces from ConfirmEdit

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aude created this task.Jan 10 2015, 9:07 PM

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aude edited projects, added Wikidata; removed Blocked-on-Wikidata.Jan 10 2015, 9:11 PM

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I still can't save urls after reverting https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136323/. When reverting to before https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177746/ ("Use the shared parse on API edit"), then saving urls works again.

aude updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 10 2015, 9:27 PM

aude updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 10 2015, 9:29 PM

Lydia_Pintscher triaged this task as High priority.Jan 11 2015, 12:04 PM

Lydia_Pintscher moved this task from incoming to ready to go on the Wikidata board.

Lydia_Pintscher added a subscriber: tstarling.

the issue seems to be the change to use EditFilterMergedContent hook, which Wikibase also runs in addition to core. There obviously is some compatibility issue.

Since we have no obvious / easy way to display captchas now in Wikibase, the easy short-term solution might be just not to enable captchas for entity namespaces.

I would prefer that ConfirmEdit and Wikibase work more gracefully together, though, when enabled for entity namespaces, and also look into why there is no error text displayed in the popup when a user tries to enter a url value.

The missing error message should be solved with this change, which adds an error message to the status object returned by ConfirmEdit:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/184381

I don't know, what the best way would be for ConfirmEdit to handle Wikibase. No CAPTCHA? Wikibase should be able to request the CAPTCHA image from the api result to display it and build a new api request to save the edit and pass the captchaid and the result of the user.

I hope we can resolve this asap :)

Florian moved this task from Backlog to In discussion on the ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension) board.Jan 15 2015, 11:37 AM