I think it would be best if we just removed the captcha, rather than deploying a new engine.
-- Tim Starling On 07/11/14 13:13, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
