Yes, i know. My point was why Malayalam in that comment :) Why not Hindi ,Tamil or some other "globally known" Indian languages ...( which are usually associated with India) Looks like whole Wikimedia getting to hear lots about Malayalam Wikipedia in the recent days .. they did this.. they did that .. Good job !
Regards Tinu Cherian
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Anoop anoop.ind@gmail.com wrote:
Malayalam captcha is already available to use. But it is not yet integrated with mediawiki software :(
http://mlcaptcha.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post_24.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlcaptcha/
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:08 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <tinucherian@gmail.com
wrote:
" *Should we not have ...Malayalam-based (there is a lot of talk nowadays in having Wikipedia growing in India), etc. captchas ?* "
Looks like Malayalam Wikipedia creating lots of buzz in the global Wikipedia movement :D
- Tinu Cherian
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Teofilo teofilowiki@gmail.com Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:27 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Captchas and non-English speakers To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
I've just opened a new account on the Danish Wikipedia.
I was asked to read the following Captcha :
http://da.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speciel:Captcha/image&wpCaptch...
I provided the following answer : "shipsneeds" and it was accepted. But I must confess that reading the second "e" and the "d" was difficult for me.
I was anguished, because I feared that if I answered a wrong answer, I would not be given a second chance for some time.
I don't see why both "e"s should have a different look. Because they looked different, I was puzzled during a long time before eventually choosing to type a second "e". The vertical bar of the "d" being extremely short in comparison with that of the "h" and that of the "p", I was wondering if the last character could not be a square looking "o" or a manual script "a".
I had all these difficulties although I am among the advanced readers and speakers of English. I Know that "ee" is an often found character combination in English. I could also recognize the words "ships" and "needs".
What about non-English speakers ?
Should we not have Japanese-based, Malayalam-based (there is a lot of talk nowadays in having Wikipedia growing in India), etc. captchas ?
For the time being, while the captcha is English-based, how about adding a button with "let me try another captcha" for people experiencing a captcha that is very difficult to read ?
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