Speaking of anglocentrism, I wonder if it'd be possible for the current
captcha software to generate captchas in other languages. I've seen some
generated captchas at the Vietnamese Wikipedia that would definitely
confuse Vietnamese-speakers (can't remember the words exactly), because
of things like r's and n's smooshed up right next to each other and
stuff. The user might have to /guess/ because the English words really
don't follow Vietnamese spelling rules.
An advantage to localizing the captchas would be that it might reduce
the impact of spambots at non-English projects. As far as I know, there
isn't yet a captcha-defeating bot that understands Vietnamese or Basque
or Quechua.
By the way, I'm only proposing localizing for most languages that use
the Latin alphabet, because requiring users to respond to a captcha in
Thai or Arabic would exclude a lot of legitimate interwiki users. And
users of other scripts tend to have the means of entering in Latin-based
characters. Also, for languages that use diacritical marks, we could
generate the words without the marks and modify
[[MediaWiki:Captcha-createaccount]], asking the user to enter in the
word without diacritical marks of any kind.
geni wrote:
On 3/20/06, Theresa Knott
<theresaknott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/20/06, Steve Bennett
<stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/20/06, Theresa Knott
<theresaknott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry i thought a catchpa was a wiggly word
_image_. What I am
descirbing could easily be text.
Invent one then ;) Bear in mind that if it's
multiple choice, then the
robot could just have a few goes.
A colour that's the opposite of black
the number of days in a week
A pet animal that goes woof woof.
That has the problem of being anglocentric.
You are going to need at least 1000 of these and you are going to need
them in a lot of languages.
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geni
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