Maybe present three or four different capcha's with different scripts, requiring only one to be filled out?
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Yury Katkov <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that making Russian, Korean and Arabian captcha is really bad idea. > English keyboad layout is installed by default in all operation systems, as > far as I know. Moreover very interesting problems can appear if this > feature would be implemented. Who will decide what captcha language is > used? We can look at user IP address - then sometimes the foreigners will > be in trouble. We can use Ukrainian capcha for the Ukrainian wesites - thus > assuming that every person who knows Ukrainian has the Ukrainian keyboard > layout, which is not true. > I think that the assumption that "everyone in the internet is able to print > English letters loking at their noised example" is not very bold assumption. > 26.07.2012 17:53 пользователь "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" < > [email protected]> написал: > >> 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. >> >> I'd like to know if there are plans to solve this issue - I hope I >> don't sound rude, maybe this can be a minor issue when we don't see >> the difficulties people from a different place can face. I think this >> is important for Wikipedias other than the English one (just read >> people comments in the bug) and we can be loosing new contributors >> because of their first impressions. Thanks, >> >> Tom >> >> -- >> Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) >> Wikimedia Brasil >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
