I'm pretty sure most users technical enough to use IRC are able to solve captchas well.
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/11/14 06:21, Pine W wrote: > >> Discussing an option with the community to test replacing registration >> CAPTCHAs with an email requirement makes sense to me. I would support a >> small, carefully designed test. If someone is motivated to create a >> Wikimedia account and they don't want to register an email, they can be >> given the option to have someone help them to set up an account via IRC, >> Facebook, or other communications methods. >> > > It would be nice to have a link that leads the user to a > #wikipedia-accountcreation channel for getting help creating an account. > There are few ways to get thelp for an inexperienced user if they fail at > the create account form. It is orthogonal however on whether we use a > captcha or not. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
