Wasn't a new CAPTCHA engine merged a couple weeks ago? What's the status of that? If I remember, the goal of the new engine was to make the CAPTCHA more difficult for bots, so it may (or may not) make things worse for humans. Have we ever done any research to find out how likely humans are to be able to solve our captchas?
Ryan Kaldari On Nov 6, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My apologies if this is the wrong place to start a discussion on this, but > it's a better place than nowhere. I recently took part in two very > different Wikipedia workshops -- one in Uganda for schoolchildren aged > 14-17, and one Bodø, Norway, for GLAM people aged 35-55. One glaringly > obvious barrier of entry that was common for both groups is that the > CAPTCHA we use is too freaking hard. > > The main concern is obviously that it is really hard to read, but there are > also some other issues, namely that all the fields in the user registration > form (except for the username) are wiped if you enter the CAPTCHA > incorrectly. So when you make a mistake, not only do you have to re-type a > whole new CAPTCHA (where you may make another mistake), you also have to > re-type the password twice *and* your e-mail address. This takes a long > time, especially if you're not a fast typer (which was the case for the > first group), or if you are on a tablet or phone (which was the case for > some in the second group). > > So I would like to start a discussion about changing to a CAPTCHA that is > more user-friendly, and hopefully one that isn't as > English/Latin-alphabet-centric as the one we currently use. If Ugandan > children and old Norwegian people, which all use the Latin alphabet, have > such problems deciphering the CAPTCHA, what about people speaking languages > that don't use the Latin alphabet? I would prefer something more > simplistic, like some sort of math or image-based CAPTCHA, instead of the > current CAPTCHA we use. > > -- > mvh > Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by> > _______________________________________________ > 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
