Hi,
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)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> 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
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil