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We're trying to make our "are you a computer or a human?" tests (CAPTCHAs) on our wikis more usable. Specifically, we want to offer the test in lots of languages, not just English. So we need to check whether people can read the non-English images. We're looking for people who know Bengali, Cherokee, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Sinhala/Sinhalese, Tamil, and Thai to look at these sample images: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/-RRtFyoJji/captchas * bn Bengali * chr Cherokee * gu Gujarati * hi Hindi (Devanagari script) * mr Marathi (Devanagari script) * sa Sanskrit (Devanagari script) * ml Malayalam * si Sinhala/Sinhalese * ta Tamil * th Thai This is a followup on Nemo's comment here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309#c36 -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:33:44 -0400 From: sumanah(a)wikimedia.org To: wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Please help us check these CAPTCHAs for readability We're trying to make our "are you a computer or a human?" tests (CAPTCHAs) on our wikis more usable. Specifically, we want to offer the test in lots of languages, not just English. So we need to check whether people can read the non-English images. We're looking for people who know Bengali, Cherokee, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Sinhala/Sinhalese, Tamil, and Thai to look at these sample images: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/-RRtFyoJji/captchas * bn Bengali * chr Cherokee * gu Gujarati * hi Hindi (Devanagari script) * mr Marathi (Devanagari script) * sa Sanskrit (Devanagari script) * ml Malayalam * si Sinhala/Sinhalese * ta Tamil * th Thai This is a followup on Nemo's comment here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309#c36 -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors