Hi all;
Solving captcha during registration is mandatory. Can this be replaced with a sound captcha for visual impairment people? It is a suggestion to the usability project too. Thanks.
Regards, emijrp
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:27 PM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Solving captcha during registration is mandatory. Can this be replaced with a sound captcha for visual impairment people?
In theory, yes. Someone needs to provide the code, though. For now, people who want to sign up and can't solve a captcha can request that an admin make an account for them, like people whose IP addresses are blocked. I think enwiki has a toolserver project dedicated to that.
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
In theory, yes. Someone needs to provide the code, though. For now, people who want to sign up and can't solve a captcha can request that an admin make an account for them, like people whose IP addresses are blocked. I think enwiki has a toolserver project dedicated to that.
The en.wikipedia project for that resides at [[WP:ACC]](1), The toolserver system from memory is a request type system (although that may of changed since I last looked), where as the actual accounts are created on site using the [[Special:CreateAccount]](2) special page, there is a limit for that system so that a user may only create so many accounts per hour, but we do (or did) have a override for that
(1). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ACC (2). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin/signup
-Peachey
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:09 PM, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
there is a limit for that system so that a user may only create so many accounts per hour, but we do (or did) have a override for that -Peachey
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Yes, any admin or account creator flag is not affected by the account creation throttle.
Create an account is helpful, but it's a shame we make visually impaired editors jump through another hoop. I would be interested in seeing an audio captcha option. Does such a thing already exist in open source form?
[Sorry if this is a top post - on my phone right now]
On 5/15/10, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
In theory, yes. Someone needs to provide the code, though. For now, people who want to sign up and can't solve a captcha can request that an admin make an account for them, like people whose IP addresses are blocked. I think enwiki has a toolserver project dedicated to that.
The en.wikipedia project for that resides at [[WP:ACC]](1), The toolserver system from memory is a request type system (although that may of changed since I last looked), where as the actual accounts are created on site using the [[Special:CreateAccount]](2) special page, there is a limit for that system so that a user may only create so many accounts per hour, but we do (or did) have a override for that
(1). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ACC (2). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin/signup
-Peachey
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2010/5/15 Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com:
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:27 PM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
Solving captcha during registration is mandatory. Can this be replaced with a sound captcha for visual impairment people?
In theory, yes. Someone needs to provide the code, though. For now, people who want to sign up and can't solve a captcha can request that an admin make an account for them, like people whose IP addresses are blocked. I think enwiki has a toolserver project dedicated to that.
there is a google-owned public captcha service called recaptcha, that serves for useful purpose (digitalizing books) and is accessible to visually impaired people.
i think the best effect of recaptcha is psychological, since this meaningless task may be perceived as "useful" for some noble task. and it's good that we manage to be able to fool ourselves that way, captchas are so annoying..
[ but yeah, not open source, also not everyone trusts google ]
On 17 May 2010 09:08, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva tolkiendili@gmail.com wrote:
i think the best effect of recaptcha is psychological, since this meaningless task may be perceived as "useful" for some noble task. and it's good that we manage to be able to fool ourselves that way, captchas are so annoying.. [ but yeah, not open source, also not everyone trusts google ]
Has no-one reimplemented it or something like it? We have a pile of scans ourselves that could do with human review, even a few words at a time ...
- d.
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