On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
We were going to disable it temporarily on English
Wikipedia to get an
idea of the short-term costs and benefits. It seems this has been
shelved for now.
Yep. This idea is spec'd at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Account_creation_UX/CAPTCHA. Doing
a short removal experiment got support from Chris (Steipp, works on
security) but was definitely a touchy subject.
Our alternative idea is to support adding a refresh button to the CAPTCHA
wherever it appears (so both account creation and where it appears when
saving an edit). This is pretty much already built and working, and you can
try it on our Labs instance
http://piramido.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page. We
just need to make sure it's incorporated well in to our new account
creation look being worked on for MediaWiki core.
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/