Nikola Smolenski wrote: >On 22/01/13 01:44, Bawolff Bawolff wrote: >>Given that there are algorithms that can solve our captcha presumably >>they are mostly preventing the lazy and those that don't have enough >>knowledge to use those algorithims. I would guess that text on an image >>without any blurring or manipulation would be just as hard for those >>sorts of people to break. (Obviously that's a rather large guess). As a >>compromise maybe we should have straight text in image captchas. > >A simple thing that could be done is to introduce localized captchas on >non-Latin wikis (just remember that not everyone has the appropriate >keyboard). This would mean that new captcha-cracking algorithms would >need to be developed for each script, and if the wikis are small, >spammers would not bother.
Any developer interested in Wikimedia wiki CAPTCHAs should look at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CAPTCHA>. There's some low-hanging bug fruit there. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
