Topic on Extension talk:ConfirmEdit

Make ConfirmEdit "Messages" more abvious

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199.85.228.100 (talkcontribs)

I'd like to make the messages that confirmEdit produces more obvious so that people understand what's going on. for example, right now after clicking "save page", the user is retured to the same page with the following at the top:

" Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be recorded in this page's edit history. To edit this page, please solve the simple sum below and enter the answer in the box (more info): 94 + 10 = "

I'd like to style that message, ie put a red box around it, make it bigger, and make it clear the changes will not be saved until this action is completed. How can I make these changes? I notice the first half of the message is in a div with the css class of "mw-anon-edit-warning" - so I can style that, but the rest is fairly hard to get access to.

Thanks

Subfader (talkcontribs)

Edit the according message in the MediaWiki NS. Find it on Special:Allmessages.

Unikum~mediawikiwiki (talkcontribs)

I suggest to add div tag with uniq ID which users can customize with own css.

This post was posted by Unikum~mediawikiwiki, but signed as Unikum.

198.84.187.124 (talkcontribs)

To make it more obvious: why not just put the CAPTCHA just above the save button for anonymous users, so it looks like it's a part of the process?

I'm guessing this should work for most installs that merely whitelist/blacklist IPs (which is known in advance) and whitelists certain classes of users (again, known in advance). I think only the most advanced users are using REGEXs to allow certain edits to pass without CAPTCHAing.

Harry Wood (talkcontribs)

No it's quite common to configure it to only trigger when adding external links (so the edit needs to be submitted before deciding whether or not to show a captcha)

But yes for people setting it to trigger on *all* edits, it would indeed make sense for the captcha to be displayed alongside the 'save' button. I suppose if it was really clever, it would re-arrange the way the form works in accordance with how triggering is configured.

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