https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309

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--- Comment #9 from l3o <[email protected]> 2011-12-12 19:00:52 UTC ---
I have an idea how this problem could be solved:

MediaWiki should have an default fund of words, if the wiki doesn't contain
enough words (eg. 500 words).
Than everytime a captcha should be displayed, a script fetches a random article
and two random words. This words will be in the target language, because the
are from articles in the same language as the user wants.
Than a script would place those two words onto an image, make them a bit
unreadable and display them to the user.
The user would now have the task to solve the captcha.

But there are some problems:
- As mentioned: If the Wiki has not enough words, it can't create really random
captchas. So, eventually should be included a default fund of words, but this
could be a design problem.
- Also it would be a problem with the non unicode characters. Eventually it
should be coded new, instead of using five millions totally different existing
solutions and merge them.
- For big pages this could eventually be a performance problem.
= And the biggest problem: It would take some time to create all this new code.
Also, I don't know if that would be really better than the existing solution.

And there would be one desing thing: This would be only a good solution for big
Wikis, because there it would be hard to predict the selected words in the
captcha, like it could eventually be with smaller Wikis.

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