On 27/07/12 16:31, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote: > 2012/7/26 Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com>: > >> 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. > > If that is the case, why don't we change the CAPTCH for random letters?
You should probably ask Neil Harris, the author of the captcha generator we use. from his 06/02/2011 mail: > The wordlists themselves need not be secret: they are only needed to > create easily-typed strings that are sufficiently large in number to > provide a moderate challenge to brute force guessing. I have added a random captcha at http://test.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ You can try adding urls at http://test.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=edit and http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox for comparing the presented captchas. (yes, testwikibeta is quite broken right now, but the captchas show) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
