Re: [libreoffice-website] Editing wiki pages and annoying questions

Hi Dennis,

Saw that you added the red alert around the reminder, but now after
pressing 'save page' after that brings me back to the captcha and its
going in a loop - captcha, reminder, captcha, reminder, ...

Regards,
Jay Philips

On 06/04/2014 05:26 PM, Dennis Roczek wrote:
> Hi Jay,
>
> the spam / captcha extension is still on my to-do-list (see also
> https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/172 ) and I think I
> should give it a bit more priority as this seems to be a bigger issue
> than I thought. I hadn't any problems ages ago (when I was a normal
> user and not an admin).
>
> I will try if I can find any configurations which improves the
> situation as described in your email. Thanks for the suggestion
>
> Regards,
>
> Dennis Roczek
>
> Am 04.06.2014 14:56, schrieb Jay Philips:
> > Hi Dennis,
> >
> > Hopefully that would be an improvement, but if i already checked the
> > 'This is a minor edit' checkbox, maybe that should have auto filled the
> > summary. It would be alot better if the captcha was there on the initial
> > edit page as i'm assuming it already knows that its going to be put on
> > the second page. And why is the captcha there on every single edit, it
> > gets ridiculous. If i give the captcha once, some cookie should be set
> > for maybe that session or maybe even an hour, so i dont have to deal
> > with it now that it knows i'm a human. :) Ultimately, there needs to be
> > some type of privileges set for users, so they dont have to deal with
> > this at all. I'm only guess about the privileges part as i dont know how
> > the wiki backend functions. :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jay Philips
> >
> > On 06/04/2014 12:56 PM, Dennis Roczek wrote:
> > > Hi *,
> > > OK, at least a bit improvement: I have highlight the message about the
> > > missing edit summary with a red border and a gray colored background.
> > >
> > > Hope this message isn't overseen then (I missed it a few times in the
> > > beginning, too).
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Dennis Roczek
> > >
> > > Am 03.06.2014 17:15, schrieb Jay Philips:
> > > > Hi Alex,
> > > >
> > > > Yep i've been having similar problems with the wiki, where in order to
> > > > make a minor change, i have to click the 'save page' button 3 times.
> > > > First time editing the page, second time dealing with captcha, third
> > > > time dealing with 'Reminder: You have not provided an edit summary. If
> > > > you click "Save page" again, your edit will be saved without one.'. It
> > > > is quite a pain.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Jay Philips
> > > >
> > > > On 06/03/2014 05:34 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > > > > Le 03/06/2014 15:28, Dennis Roczek a écrit :
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Dennis,
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > no that is not normal. Can you give me your user name (I want to
> > > > > > check
> > > > > > if you run in any existing abuse/spam filter) and maybe if you still
> > > > > > know a) which page you wanted to edit (I remeber that there are
> > > > > > multiple QA member pages) and b) what you wanted to change...
> > > > > I finally managed to get it to do what I wanted, but phew, arduous
> > > > > or what !
> > > > > My handle is iplaw67, I created a new account yesterday, as the wiki
> > > > > couldn't seem to remember any of the older ones that I had, even
> > > > > when I
> > > > > asked it to reset my password, it came back as "user unknown", hence
> > > > > the
> > > > > new account, linked to a different e-mail address.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have experienced the problems with my own Profile page (the one
> > > > > that
> > > > > you get when you click on your alias), and also with :
> > > > >
> > > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA_Team
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > As I mention above, I got there in the end, but I'm afraid I won't be
> > > > > going anywhere near the wiki again in future if that is how it is
> > > > > supposed to function.
> > > > >
> > > > > Alex


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