On 26/07/12 15:53, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote: > Hi all, > > how are you? I'd like to know about the possibility of solving an old > issue with CAPTCHA for Wikipedias in languages other than English. > This bug > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309 > > was created in 2006. There is a discussion here about having CAPTCHA > in other languages from February 2012 > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/51951/ > > but it seems there was no conclusion. After working on campus with new > editors in Brazil, I've checked this is a real obstacle, since most > people here cannot ready English at all.
Thet don't need to read English. They just need to type the letters they see on the image. Sure, you can have a small advantage if you know what letters could make a valid English word (or if you have the captcha dictionary installed), but a Brazilian which can read wikipedia should have no problems typing the captcha. That said, it's easy enough to make a different set of captchas if we are provided a suitable dictionary of words (note that we don't want non-ansi letters such as รง in the captcha in case it's seen by a foreign user which doesn't have such letter on its keyboard). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
