MZ: you mean removing just for account creation right? There is also a CAPTCHA delivered on external link addition for some editors–I think IPs and users not autoconfirmed. This is probably a lot more important for combating spam.
(Sorry for top posting. On my phone.) On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:03 PM MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
svetlana wrote:
I like how my message to try abandoning captcha entirely came up with a myriad of complaints how we can be smart, enable new captcha which is unique, etc.
Let's measure the impact.
We disabled the CAPTCHA entirely on test.wikipedia.org a few weeks ago. The wiki seems to be about the same. It probably makes sense to continue slowly disabling the CAPTCHA on wikis until users start to shout. Perhaps we'll disable the CAPTCHA on the rest of the phase 0 wikis next?
MZMcBride
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