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

Quim Gil <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #25 from Quim Gil <[email protected]> ---
fyi there is a proposal from the Language team for a mentored project about 

Multilingual, usable and effective captchas
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Multilingual.2C_usable_and_effective_captchas

I have some reservations about featuring that project to Google Summer of Code
or Outreach Program for Women participants, but I'm willing to be proven wrong.
Reasons:

* Unclear buy-in from the community or the maintainers. The whole CAPTCHA topic
is messy, with several discussion threads, a RFC, a prototype, and potential
plans. We don't have a clear plan for captchas. There hasn't been enough
feedback about captchas based purely on images without any text, as this
project proposes.

* Bug 32695 - Review and Deploy Wikicaptcha. Is there and waiting for feedback.

* I'm not a CS anything and I could be perfectly wrong, but the project feels
too ambitious for three months, both with the amount of work required and the
skills needed.

With all this I see the risk of failure bigger than wished for a GSOC project,
either because students will most likely lack the time/skills or because even a
complete GSOC project would have a hard time ending up merged in our codebase.

Feedback welcome.

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