[OSM-talk] Editing wiki asks for confirmation code?

[Skyler Hawthorne]

On July 26, 2020 14:56:39 stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> I speculate (a bit, though I am a seasoned software quality assurance 
> analyst), but I lean heavily towards Skyler's specific environment of a 
> OnePlus mobile device running OxygenOS 10 and regardless of whether he uses 
> Firefox or Chrome.  What I find curious is that I asked Skyler whether to 
> edit wiki, he chose "Edit" or "Edit Source" and he said "Neither, I clicked 
> the Pencil icon."  That strongly seems like something either his OS or 
> browser is "doing" (javascript somewhere?) and appears to get us closer to 
> finding the code-path where the "Confirmation code" dialog is thrown.

As a software engineer, my intuition would incline me to doubt this has 
anything to do with my OS. OSs don't tend to directly manipulate your web 
traffic in such a way that could lead to breaking functionality in web apps 
(analytics, of course, are a different matter). As for "edit" vs "edit 
source", you can see for yourself that neither of those are an option on 
the mobile site.

https://skyler-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Screenshot_20200726-150258.jpg

The pencil icon brings me to a text box with wikitext, so my guess is that 
it is "edit source", although such words do not appear anywhere that I noticed.

>
> Skyler, one more piece of the puzzle:  your screen shot chops off the end 
> of the web page you are browsing:  it says 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New... and then fades out.  May we have 
> the page you were trying to edit and the name of the browser you were 
> running with this screen shot?

If you are asking for the full URL, it is:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=New_York/NYS_GIS_Clearinghouse#/editor/0

These screenshots are from the latest version of Firefox for Android, 
although the same thing happens in Chrome and Brave as well.