Teofilo wrote:
Should we not have Japanese-based, Malayalam-based (there is a lot of talk nowadays in having Wikipedia growing in India), etc. captchas ?
This is the subject of bug 5309, "Localize captcha images": https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309
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 ?
This is the subject of bug 14230, "Add a button to request a new fancy captcha (code)": https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14230
Generally it's a good idea to search Bugzilla before mailing this list. More often than not, Bugzilla will contain the relevant problem and a discussion of it.
While I sympathize with non-English speakers, I must confess that it's been quite a while since I filled out a CAPTCHA on a Wikimedia wiki. Surely most users use unified login, requiring a CAPTCHA to only be filled out once for all Wikimedia wikis?
MZMcBride