Good point. Perhaps there is a case to be made for a small-scale experiment
of removing the CAPTCHA. I suggest consulting the stewards for their
thoughts. We have at least one steward who is supposedly an expert on
spambots, and his input may be valuable. You might also consult the admins
of whichever community you would like to use for the home wiki of the
experiment.
Pine
On Nov 6, 2014 10:54 PM, "Dan Garry" <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 6 November 2014 22:39, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm interested both in improving our user
stats and stamping out
spambots.
Dan, how do we know that those 17 percent were
predominantly humans?
We don't know for certain that they're human. That said, why would a
spambot try to use the Wikipedia app? You're only creating extra hurdles
for yourself by doing so. I've seen no evidence so far that anyone except
humans use the Wikipedia app. Well, and Googlebot, but it reports itself to
us using a special user agent and also only reads articles. :-)
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation
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