That's been a very complex issue. Henrique will bring more context into here.
For now, it's worth mentioning the Portuguese Wikipedia community has been working on this antivandalism project http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia_Discuss%C3%A3o:Projetos/AntiVand... order to build alternative measures to deal with vandalism and inappropriate edits with a very small portion of the community reverting edits - considering the short and mid terms.
They are already aware that even the return of emergency CAPTCHA won't be a definite measure (lasting no more than one year, as per what was agreed) and are handling to create other ways of preventing inappropriate content through new approaches.
I actually believe that's a good idea and am happy to see there has been a lot of work on that - out of comfort zone, but also conscious of the current limitations in place.
Oona
On 6 July 2013 20:22, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Asaf Bartov, 06/07/2013 23:51:
To be precise, the facts do not show that. They show the CAPTCHA is
responsible for significantly fewer good-faith contributions from casual editors. That is is or is not a "bad idea", however, is a subjective judgment, based on one's weighing of multiple factors.
Evidently, large parts of the PTWP community remain convinced that the downsides of not having the CAPTCHA (easier vandalism? admin workload? -- I'm not really following that debate) outweigh the upsides.
It's worth noting, among other things, that the vote in question ended just before the stats were released.
Nemo
You (and I)
may well disagree, but let's recognize that this depends on our _judgment_ of priorities.
Whether or not an editing community's mandate for self-governance should extend to the right to make such a fundamentally anti-wiki measure as the emergency CAPTCHA feature a permanent one is debatable, of course.
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