It is currently impossible to create an account on *any* version of the Wikipedia app for either iOS and Android. All users get stuck in a loop trying to enter captchas.
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- T95941: Spike [1 hour]: As a Mobile Apps Team, I would like to be alerted when something is going catastrophically wrong with the app in production, so we can fix it for our users (Monitoring/Alerting)
T95019: EPIC: As a Mobile Apps Team, I would like to be alerted when something is going catastrophically wrong with the app in production, so we can fix it for our users (Monitoring/Alerting)
T94276: Flow: Can not proceed past CAPTCHA (when submitting new topic)
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This is looking like an API/backend issue, because the iOS app hasn't even had any code changes in production for months and it's broken there as well as on Android.
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This issue appears to have begun at around 20150401230000 UTC (11pm Wednesday 1st April, UTC).
@greg says this is around when the branch update happened:
22:31 logmsgbot: twentyafterfour rebuilt wikiversions.cdb and synchronized wikiversions files: wikipedias to 1.25wmf23