Interesting thread in Jimbo's talk page[1] from June 2008.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_37#Wikipedia_and_...
2010/5/16 Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Christopher Grant chrisgrantmail@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:09 AM, K. Peachey p858snake@yahoo.com.au
wrote:
I believe reCaptcha has it implemented as part of their service (we do/did have a extension to implement theres) but then we would have to reply on third party servers.
Yes, reCaptcha does. However iirc it has been rejected in the past
because
of both the reliance on 3rd party servers and not all the code is open.
- Chris
Yes, and I think that makes it pretty much a non-starter for both reasons. Nothing's really changed there.
-Chad
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