Extension talk:ConfirmEdit/FancyCaptcha experiments

userpages created by IPS
From the mailing list, "2 userpages, which had not been previously created, were added by two IPs". Does that mean user pages were created by IPs? Seems like a reasonable scenario to throttle/block with AF..? That would be especially true on wikis with a Drafts extension, which is where IPs can?/should be able to.. post new pages. John Vandenberg (talk) 09:19, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've now added that pattern to an existing filter. The only false positive in a month would have been a mistaken logged out edit; and it's an ongoing pattern with captchas enabled as well, so we should see some effect (and tweak accordingly) anyway. --Nemo 09:40, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Such a AF rule will be easy to create. I found the following:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=User%3AJamesDay
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=User%3AZzzztz
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=User%3ATcaton-nm
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=User%3AFokebox
 * and created this (currently disabled) AF rule for discusion: Special:AbuseFilter/38 (sorry, Nemo_bis was faster :/ --Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 09:44, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Most users would see throttling/CAPTCHA instead of a logged out edit as a good thing! John Vandenberg (talk) 10:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Put me on the list of people in search of a big, bold, blinking "you're logged out again!" warning. OTRS would appreciate it.  (Why can't MediaWiki detect that I was logged in a few minutes/hours/days ago, and prompt me to log in on the way to the edit page in the first place?)  WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:09, 8 December 2014 (UTC)