On 11/10/2007, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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 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.
Eurgh. That's ... silly. Do we have any readers with ins at CMU who can explain to them the advantages of having it on a top 10 website in a convincing and saleable manner?
- d.