Hi,
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 08/19/2015 10:17 PM, Jamison Lofthouse wrote:
The subject sounds exactly like the reCAPTCHA < https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html%3E tagline. Not sure how beneficial the project would be but I have seen it used. Maybe worth looking into.
Unfortunately, we can not use reCAPTCHA because it is proprietary software.
ReCAPTCHA is available for MediaWiki but, as Matt says, using it in Wikimedia servers is another story. In your own wiki, it will be quite effective dealing with your average spammer. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#ReCaptcha
For what is worth, there have been attempts to improve our captchas, and at some point we even had GSoC students interested, but lack of common technical vision and lack of mentors didn't allow us to move forward. See
Prototype CAPTCHA optimized for multilingual and mobile https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64960
also
Implement, Review and Deploy Wikicaptcha https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T34695
Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598