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FS#48205 - Captcha at wiki requires pacman - whcih may not be available

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by htgoebel (htgoebel) - Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 12:44 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Tuesday, 29 March 2016, 01:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The captcha of "Create account" in the ArchLinux-Wiki requires the output of "pacman -V". So to solve this captcha, one needs to have pacman installed.

I'm not using Archlinux (yet), so I do not have pacman installed and thus have no chance of passing this captcha.

Please replace the captcha by another one which does not require software available on ArchLinux only.

Some ideas:
LC_ALL=C bash --version
LC_ALL=C cat --version
LC_ALL=C ls --version
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Tuesday, 29 March 2016, 01:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Alad Wenter (Alad) - Tuesday, 23 February 2016, 03:23 GMT
See the note on the main page:

"Account registration from non-Arch systems
The captcha used for registering a new wiki account requires running an up-to-date Arch system. Nonetheless, users of other operating systems are very welcome of course, provided they only contribute generic Linux-related content: in order to answer the captcha, they are advised to boot the latest Arch live image, for example in a virtual machine, or send an email to an active administrator for help."

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