On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Bawolff Bawolff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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] > We actually don't know that, and "whatsoever" is probably a gross exaggeration. > > 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/CAPTCHAThat > > 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 > Yeah I would prefer we only test removal on the registration page. > _______________________________________________ > 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
