On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Pau Giner <pgi...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I made some mockups to illustrate some of the ideas on captchas that could > be less problematic for non-English speakers, improve the general UX and > rely on images from commons. > > - Panorama captcha: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama-captcha-idea.png > Based on tagging parts of a panorama picture with the appropriate word (in > the UI language or Basic English words). > > - 'Who is who' captcha: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Find-all-captcha-idea.png > Based on finding from a set of similar images the ones that fit a specific > criteria (with an image describing also the criteria). > > - 'Find the different' captcha: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Find-the-different-captcha-idea.png > Based on finding the image that is different from a set of images. > > > These captchas will probably generate new problems for the technical side, > require adjustments to reduce the chance of a machine to solve them, or may > just be unfeasible to generate, but I wanted to provide these ideas in case > anybody else may use it as a base for improve on any technical weakness > they may have and make them at least as hard to solve for a machine as > text-based captchas are. > Thanks Pau, that's really helpful. :) Since we've progressed from just the idea stage to mockups, but we still have a lot of different options, I've started an RfC on MediaWiki.org where we can list all the issues and potential solutions. I don't personally think we need to come to a consensus right now, but CAPTCHAs are going to keep coming up even if no action is taken in the short term, so we should document all our ideas. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CAPTCHA Steven _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
