That's been a very complex issue. Henrique will bring more context into here.
For now, it's worth mentioning the Portuguese Wikipedia community has been working on this antivandalism project http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia_Discuss%C3%A3o:Projetos/AntiVandalismoin order to build alternative measures to deal with vandalism and inappropriate edits with a very small portion of the community reverting edits - considering the short and mid terms. They are already aware that even the return of emergency CAPTCHA won't be a definite measure (lasting no more than one year, as per what was agreed) and are handling to create other ways of preventing inappropriate content through new approaches. I actually believe that's a good idea and am happy to see there has been a lot of work on that - out of comfort zone, but also conscious of the current limitations in place. Oona On 6 July 2013 20:22, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Asaf Bartov, 06/07/2013 23:51: > > To be precise, the facts do not show that. They show the CAPTCHA is >> responsible for significantly fewer good-faith contributions from casual >> editors. That is is or is not a "bad idea", however, is a subjective >> judgment, based on one's weighing of multiple factors. >> >> Evidently, large parts of the PTWP community remain convinced that the >> downsides of not having the CAPTCHA (easier vandalism? admin workload? -- >> I'm not really following that debate) outweigh the upsides. >> > > It's worth noting, among other things, that the vote in question ended > just before the stats were released. > > Nemo > > > You (and I) >> may well disagree, but let's recognize that this depends on our _judgment_ >> of priorities. >> >> Whether or not an editing community's mandate for self-governance should >> extend to the right to make such a fundamentally anti-wiki measure as the >> emergency CAPTCHA feature a permanent one is debatable, of course. >> >> Asaf >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l>, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@**lists.wikimedia.org<[email protected]> > ?subject=**unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
