On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks. Perhaps some work on CAPTCHA could happen via
a Project grant once
there is a concrete proposal that's agreeable to the participants and WMF?
Pinging Marti to ask about the possibility.
Bccing Marti because a lot needs to happen before a CAPTCHA proposal gets
under her attention for funding, and anyway decisions are made by the IEG
committee of volunteers.
Our previous attempts to push CAPTCHA related projects as
Possible-Tech-Projects
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/> have failed
because of lack of community consensus. Some failures were very bad,
wasting significant candidates and mentor time preparing proposals that
were discarded as invalid days before the submissions deadlines. If you or
someone else wants to help effectively to the progress of captcha projects,
the first step is to identify improvements or experiment worth investing
for.
See for instance
Create a CAPTCHA that is also a useful micro edit
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87598
which is Under Discussion at Possible-Tech-Projects. Pine, I bet that if
you help getting community consensus for that task (or any other single one
you prefer), that would be a more productive use of your time than trying
to promote captcha improvements in general.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil