On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. Perhaps some work on CAPTCHA could happen via a Project grant once > there is a concrete proposal that's agreeable to the participants and WMF? > Pinging Marti to ask about the possibility. >
Bccing Marti because a lot needs to happen before a CAPTCHA proposal gets under her attention for funding, and anyway decisions are made by the IEG committee of volunteers. Our previous attempts to push CAPTCHA related projects as Possible-Tech-Projects <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/> have failed because of lack of community consensus. Some failures were very bad, wasting significant candidates and mentor time preparing proposals that were discarded as invalid days before the submissions deadlines. If you or someone else wants to help effectively to the progress of captcha projects, the first step is to identify improvements or experiment worth investing for. See for instance Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598 which is Under Discussion at Possible-Tech-Projects. Pine, I bet that if you help getting community consensus for that task (or any other single one you prefer), that would be a more productive use of your time than trying to promote captcha improvements in general. -- 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
