On 11/04/2011 05:41 PM, Antoine Musso wrote:
> On 03/11/11 03:59, Neil Harris wrote:
> <snip>
>> http://elie.im/publication/text-based-captcha-strengths-and-weaknesses
>>
> <snip>
>> Accordingly, I've reworked the 2005-era CAPTCHA-image-generating Python
>> script in the CAPTCHA engine in a way that I hope should be a drop-in
>> replacement for the existing script.
> <snip>
>> Would anyone be interested in taking a look at the code and some sample
>> output?
> 
> Hello Neil,
> 
> Your python captcha script is still around. It was packaged by Brion 
> Vibber in the ConfirmEdit extension which is in svn at:
> 
> svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ConfirmEdit
> 
> I guess the easier would be for you to get an access to our subversion 
> repository: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access (you will find 
> out we have some VERY young commiters).
> 
> Once done, you can update the old script and we will be able to review 
> the code, comment it and amend it if needed.
> 
> Our CodeReview tool is at:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki
> Just enter the path /trunk/extensions/ConfirmEdit to see the last 50 
> changes made to that extension :-)
> 
> cheers,

Neil, please do give us a link to your code, and please do apply for
commit access to improve the ConfirmEdit extension.

An idea for another improvement to ConfirmEdit -- doing a version of
reCAPTCHA that helps WikiSource.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32695 is the issue in our
issue tracker.

-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

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