Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2014-01-04 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de wrote: I checked out the registration form for a white supremacist forum, and they just use reCAPTCHA. No doubt they'll be developing a CAPTJCA or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2014-01-01 Thread Nathan Larson
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: I checked out the registration form for a white supremacist forum, and they just use reCAPTCHA. No doubt they'll be developing a CAPTJCA or CAPTMCA soon enough. There are likely a number of strings that should be

[Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread George Herbert
Just got a report and screenshot that a new user got this string for their captcha on en.wikipedia nigerblew http://snag.gy/JpSUR.jpg Though several people are pointing out that Niger is a country, I think it's reasonable to try and avoid things close to the two-g version of that word; nobody's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:05 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: Just got a report and screenshot that a new user got this string for their captcha on en.wikipedia nigerblew http://snag.gy/JpSUR.jpg Though several people are pointing out that Niger is a country, I think it's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread Benjamin Lees
There's a blacklist that has been included with FancyCaptcha for a few months, although I don't know whether it's the same as the one the WMF uses. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21025 and the associated patches. ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread Tyler Romeo
It's a CAPTCHA, not an article or piece of actual content. If people are actually getting offended by randomly generated CAPTCHAs I think they need to find something more worthwhile to complain about. -- Tyler Romeo On Jan 1, 2014 12:27 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: There's a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread George Herbert
Tyler, websites everywhere blacklist offensive words (and with some regularity, look and sound-alikes) from the random captcha generator... I don't personally care, you don't, but if we offend people needlessly it's an oops. We need some elements of the site to meet Lowest Common Denominator

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 01/01/2014 12:34 AM, George Herbert wrote: Tyler, websites everywhere blacklist offensive words (and with some regularity, look and sound-alikes) from the random captcha generator... Yes, and then we end up with the Scunthorpe problem instead. I agree it's a little bit silly, and also a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: Yes, and then we end up with the Scunthorpe problem instead. The Scunthorpe problem is not actually a problem here, because we're just limiting the CAPTCHAs we serve to users, not filtering their input.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: Tyler, websites everywhere blacklist offensive words (and with some regularity, look and sound-alikes) from the random captcha generator... Yes, and then we end up with the Scunthorpe problem instead. I agree it's a little bit silly, and also a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Captcha filter list

2013-12-31 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.dewrote: Not only that, the selection of blacklisted words may be of- fensive itself. That doesn't seem like a problem, since the list isn't visible in the user interface. Users will not be complaining that they aren't