On 10/11/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Eurgh. That's ... silly. Do we have any readers with ins at CMU who can explain to them the advantages of having it on a top 10 website in a convincing and saleable manner?
To be fair ... there aren't all that many activities on WP that trigger the captcha: Account creation, login attempts after repeated failures, external links by anons.
I'd be somewhat surprised if we had more than 15,000 captchas solved per day. We're a traffic monster, but most of that traffic is reads.
Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
I expect we wouldn't want to participate in any case if it required using their servers, which it seems to in the general case: would we want Wikipedia captchas to break if they have some downtime? Could we implement some kind of reliable way to substitute our own captchas should that occur?
There is also the question of who benefits from the recaptcha work: I've not seen a lot of real information on that.
It would be interesting if they published a large database of problem word images -> recaptcha validated recognitions to help people with OCR research, if nothing else.