> This question is something we've also been asking ourselves on the E3 team, > as part of our work on account creation. I think we all agree that CAPTCHAs > are at best a necessary evil. They are a compromise we make in our user > experience, in order to combat automated attacks.
That's kind of missing the point of the original poster. The point being that they are an *un*nessary evil and do not prevent automated attacks whatsoever. [Snip] > To get more numbers on how much taking away the CAPTCHA might gain us in > terms of human registrations, we have considered a two hour test (to start > with) of removing the CAPTCHA from the registration page: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Account_creation_UX/CAPTCHA That > kind of test would probably not be an accurate measurement of what kind of > spam would be unleashed if we permanently removed it, but the hourly volume > of registrations on enwiki is enough to tell us the human impact. That would be interesting. Remember that captchas arent just on the user reg page though. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
