I think that making Russian, Korean and Arabian captcha is really bad idea. English keyboad layout is installed by default in all operation systems, as far as I know. Moreover very interesting problems can appear if this feature would be implemented. Who will decide what captcha language is used? We can look at user IP address - then sometimes the foreigners will be in trouble. We can use Ukrainian capcha for the Ukrainian wesites - thus assuming that every person who knows Ukrainian has the Ukrainian keyboard layout, which is not true. I think that the assumption that "everyone in the internet is able to print English letters loking at their noised example" is not very bold assumption. 26.07.2012 17:53 пользователь "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" < ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org> написал:
Hi all,
how are you? I'd like to know about the possibility of solving an old issue with CAPTCHA for Wikipedias in languages other than English. This bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309
was created in 2006. There is a discussion here about having CAPTCHA in other languages from February 2012
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/51951/
but it seems there was no conclusion. After working on campus with new editors in Brazil, I've checked this is a real obstacle, since most people here cannot ready English at all.
I'd like to know if there are plans to solve this issue - I hope I don't sound rude, maybe this can be a minor issue when we don't see the difficulties people from a different place can face. I think this is important for Wikipedias other than the English one (just read people comments in the bug) and we can be loosing new contributors because of their first impressions. Thanks,
Tom
-- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Wikimedia Brasil Wikimedia Foundation
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