[WikiEN-l] Captcha word quiz

Steve Bennett stevage at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 08:55:11 UTC 2006


On 3/21/06, James D. Forrester <james at jdforrester.org> wrote:
> Possibly, but selecting the European (Pan-)National Anthem as an example
> is a bit of a sop to the "eurocentric" charge. :-)

Not such a crime when you're talking about a language specific wiki
project, perhaps. It's also very popular in Japan!

Anyway we have established a nice algorithm for the bot to try:
1. Download audio captcha
2. Guess "Happy Birthday"
3. Guess "Ode to Joy"
4. Guess "Beethoven"
5. Give up.

Steve



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