On 30/03/2014 10:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Please give a quick look to the images for the
languages you know:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/-RRtFyoJji/captchas
If you spot something we're not aware of, please comment:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309#c32
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Re: GV captchas
I suppose it depends what you're going for. At present it looks
reasonable, words combined together arbitrarily to type out. The one
thing I would suggest is maybe excluding words with a cedilla (ç) as not
everyone knows how to type this, and they may confuse similar words with
c or c-cedilla, but it's not crucial.
If you actually want the captchas to make any sense in terms of word
combination and construction, that would be a whole different issue.
There's inflection, rules on what happens when words are run together
(spelling changes for one), and so on.
You don't need to worry much about swearwords because it's deeply
unlikely any online Manx source includes them, people didn't write that
stuff down when dictionaries were being compiled. There may well be
some awkward terms
*Specific problems:*
Quite a few of the l look like i in this font, which seems problematic.
There are also a number of captchas that resemble actual words, but
aren't. I don't know whether this is the intention or not. I also
don't know whether you care about using proper names or not.
I don't recognise the word "leight" from "leightfoalsey" and
can't find
it in the dictionary.
(
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-i…)
Should this be "leigh"?
Neuscanshoily ???
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-i…
Looks like "neuscanshoil" with a random -y added, a hangover from
English behaviour?
"Broaçhaaue" doesn't mean anything. "Broaçh" does but
"aaue" doesn't
(though Aaue is a proper name) so this is a weird combination.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-i…
Perick is also a proper name
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-i…
This one is particularly hard to make out
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-i…
The form "vaayl" is a rare grammar-induced form of an unusual word
"faayl" (turf-cutting spade). It's easy enough to make out, but if
you're aiming for this to be words people might know then I'd change
it. I might change this to "faayl" anyway.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-i…
Donal also a proper noun
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-i…
Hard to read, could be "hiu shee" or "niu shee"
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-i…
This one means "arctic castration" (spoiy = castration). Not obscene,
but maybe not for everyone?
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-i…
Cheers,
Shimmin