MZ: you mean removing just for account creation right? There is also a CAPTCHA delivered on external link addition for some editors–I think IPs and users not autoconfirmed. This is probably a lot more important for combating spam.
(Sorry for top posting. On my phone.) On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:03 PM MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > svetlana wrote: > >I like how my message to try abandoning captcha entirely came up with a > >myriad of complaints how we can be smart, enable new captcha which is > >unique, etc. > > > >Let's measure the impact. > > We disabled the CAPTCHA entirely on test.wikipedia.org a few weeks ago. > The wiki seems to be about the same. It probably makes sense to continue > slowly disabling the CAPTCHA on wikis until users start to shout. Perhaps > we'll disable the CAPTCHA on the rest of the phase 0 wikis next? > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
