Hi, On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/19/2015 10:17 PM, Jamison Lofthouse wrote: > >> The subject sounds exactly like the reCAPTCHA < >> https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html> tagline. Not sure how >> beneficial the project would be but I have seen it used. Maybe worth >> looking into. >> > > Unfortunately, we can not use reCAPTCHA because it is proprietary software. > ReCAPTCHA is available for MediaWiki but, as Matt says, using it in Wikimedia servers is another story. In your own wiki, it will be quite effective dealing with your average spammer. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#ReCaptcha For what is worth, there have been attempts to improve our captchas, and at some point we even had GSoC students interested, but lack of common technical vision and lack of mentors didn't allow us to move forward. See Prototype CAPTCHA optimized for multilingual and mobile https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64960 also Implement, Review and Deploy Wikicaptcha https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T34695 Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
