On 2013-01-21 3:56 AM, "Andre Klapper" <aklap...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 07:48 +0000, David Gerard wrote: > > On 21 January 2013 05:13, Victor Vasiliev <vasi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 01/20/2013 04:22 PM, David Gerard wrote: > > > > >> The MediaWiki captcha is literally worse than useless: it doesn't keep > > >> spambots out, and it does keep some humans out. > > > > > I don't see how the spambot statement is true. Do you have evidence for it? > > > > > > That spambots get through at all. > > Evidence is not provided by simply repeating the statement. :) >
Does http://elie.im/publication/text-based-captcha-strengths-and-weaknessescount as evidence? (Copied and pasted from the mailing list archives) Sure captchas do prevent some limitted attacks - it makes it more effort then a 5 minute perl script. Most spammers are more sophisticated than that. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
