Can't say I buy into the whole lets help the world by digitizing these
books movement.... but as you said, a moot point. I'll let you know if
I experience any difficulties, assuming I get an opportunity to check
it out.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:35 PM, William L. Thomson Jr.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I just switched the captchas on the wiki from ConfirmEdit[1] to
> reCaptcha[2]. Should be moot for the most part. Not sure if it will
> correct any errors others ran into with running out of captchas. Though
> was likely something else causing that problem to surface.
>
> The good thing about reCaptcha is that it is being used to digitize
> books were OCR fails. Thus instead of just preventing abuse of the wiki,
> we can actually help to do some good and help digitize books :)
>
>     1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
>     2. http://code.google.com/apis/recaptcha/
>
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> William L. Thomson Jr.
> Systems Administrator
> Jacksonville Linux Users Group
>
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