hello, These are some approaches i can think of instead of a text based captcha. The image idea where users are asked to spot the odd one out like demonstrated or find all the similar images like mentioned in here<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CAPTCHA> . Also a picture with a part chipped in could be shown and chipped pictures could be given as options like find the missing part from a jigsaw puzzle. The image which would be shown is http://imgur.com/uefeb08 http://imgur.com/KEJqCg3 is the picture which would be the correct option. The other options could be rotated versions of this , which would not be so easy for the bot to match. (unless it somehow worked some digital processing algorithm and matched the color gradients or something like that). This is a good option for people who do not know english or are illiterate and maybe would not understand questions like : is this a bird , plane , superman? after being shown a picture. Tell me what you think (Sorry to upload those images on imgur. i dont know how to put them on the wiki .Hope that is ok) have posted this on the CAPTCHA page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CAPTCHA>also _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l