https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32695
--- Comment #5 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #3) > Alex, it looks like WikiCAPTCHA awaits a design review > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Project_Design_Review_Process before we > can > move forward with deploying it on Wikimedia sites. Just wanted to let you > know. Thanks. The code looks to be an early prototype. I only did a five minute read through but it looks to be a proof of concept, not a feature complete implementation. Open questions about this whole idea: *how would data propogate back to wikisource. *is this even effective as a captcha **the dataset used to generate the images are publically available. It is unclear that the dataset is large enough that someone downloading the entire thing wouldn't happen. **an attacker could add entries to the dataset. Im not sure how exploitable that is, but its something that is concerning **its unclear this will actually prevent spam. Computers do not get bored. Even with 1% getting through, it would not be effective. This is using texts that ocr software marked as low confidence, which sounds significantly weaker than what recaptcha does according to wikipedia and ive heard rumours that recaptcha is not entirely effective. (Not sure if this is true). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
