On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:05 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]>wrote:
> Just got a report and screenshot that a new user got this string for their > captcha on en.wikipedia "nigerblew" > > http://snag.gy/JpSUR.jpg > > Though several people are pointing out that Niger is a country, I think > it's reasonable to try and avoid things close to the two-g version of that > word; nobody's denigrated by avoiding possibly offensive if misinterpreted > words. I recall there's a filter list?... > I don't know if there's a filter list, but this has happened before. I've seen many of our past and current CAPTCHAs when we were testing the signup/login redesign. I recall seeing both "headshits" and "obamadick". The CAPTCHA is two randomly generated English words. Personally, I think it might just be good to regenerate the CAPTCHAs entirely from time to time. AFAIK it's not that hard and our CAPTCHAs are weak anyway. Steven _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
