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David Gerard wrote:
On 08/10/2007, Christensen, Courtney ChristensenC@battelle.org wrote:
How about useful captchas? http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/15522 I don't know if it is in use anywhere yet, but you use two captcha boxes. One is a control you know what the word is (like we use now), and the other is an unknown word that is trying to be digitized from a scanned book for example. I guess that doesn't address the readability or security though.
I must admit that I hate captchas, but was actually pleased to see one of those captchas the first time I got one.
And it'd dovetail nicely with WMF's mission!
CMU refuses to open-source the software that runs that system, using vague justifications like "it would be hard to replicate the whole system, so surely no one would want the source".
That's not really the kind of software partner we prefer to work with.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)