Teofilo escribió: > I've just opened a new account on the Danish Wikipedia. > > I was asked to read the following Captcha : > > http://da.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speciel:Captcha/image&wpCaptchaId=713360303
Captcha urls can only be viewed once, you'd need to uplooad it somewhere for sharing. > I provided the following answer : "shipsneeds" and it was accepted. > But I must confess that reading the second "e" and the "d" was > difficult for me. > > I was anguished, because I feared that if I answered a wrong answer, I > would not be given a second chance for some time. That's not the case. > I don't see why both "e"s should have a different look. Because they > looked different, I was puzzled during a long time before eventually > choosing to type a second "e". The vertical bar of the "d" being > extremely short in comparison with that of the "h" and that of the > "p", I was wondering if the last character could not be a square > looking "o" or a manual script "a". I agree. Some captchas are quite bad. > I had all these difficulties although I am among the advanced readers > and speakers of English. I Know that "ee" is an often found character > combination in English. I could also recognize the words "ships" and > "needs". > > What about non-English speakers ? > > Should we not have Japanese-based, Malayalam-based (there is a lot of > talk nowadays in having Wikipedia growing in India), etc. captchas ? Note it'd be trivial to generate a set of captchas in a different language. You'd just need the appropiate (secret) dictionary. > For the time being, while the captcha is English-based, how about > adding a button with "let me try another captcha" for people > experiencing a captcha that is very difficult to read ? Well, it should be done (bug 14230) :) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
