VisualEditor hCaptcha: Warning returned in the API response about unrecognised parameter "wgConfirmEditForceShowCaptcha"
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	Apr 20 2026, 2:27 PM

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Description

Summary

The VisualEditor Bot detection and mitigation (WE4.2 hCaptcha editing trial) integration currently causes a unrecognizedparams warning for the wgConfirmEditForceShowCaptcha parameter when an AbuseFilter filter has force shown a captcha

Steps to reproduce

Create an AbuseFilter filter that has a consequence to show a captcha and make it trigger for a test edit
Trigger this filter by making an edit via the VisualEditor interface, while having the network tab open with persist logs enabled
Complete any visual challenge that is shown
Look at the MediaWiki API request for the visualeditoredit API that is a POST request
Inspect the response

What happens

The unrecognizedparams key is set as a warning which includes the parameter wgConfirmEditForceShowCaptcha

What should have happened instead

The wgConfirmEditForceShowCaptcha parameter should not be included in this warning list

Acceptance criteria

The wgConfirmEditForceShowCaptcha parameter is recognised by the visualeditoredit API and no warning about it is created

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	hCaptcha: Register params for the visualeditoredit API module	mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit	master	+23 -0
	VisualEditor: Warning returned in the API response	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+45 -0

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Change #1275915 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mpostoronca; author: Mpostoronca):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] VisualEditor: Warning returned in the API response

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1275915

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[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] VisualEditor: Warning returned in the API response

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1275915

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Change #1276689 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mpostoronca; author: Mpostoronca):

[mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit@master] hCaptcha: Register params for the visualeditoredit API module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1276689

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Change #1276689 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ConfirmEdit@master] hCaptcha: Register params for the visualeditoredit API module

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1276689

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I have not seen this error anymore, although I have not been monitoring it consistently.

Checked on test wiki, it does not happen anymore

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