Nikola Smolenski wrote:
On 22/01/13 01:44, Bawolff Bawolff wrote:
Given that there are algorithms that can solve our captcha presumably they are mostly preventing the lazy and those that don't have enough knowledge to use those algorithims. I would guess that text on an image without any blurring or manipulation would be just as hard for those sorts of people to break. (Obviously that's a rather large guess). As a compromise maybe we should have straight text in image captchas.
A simple thing that could be done is to introduce localized captchas on non-Latin wikis (just remember that not everyone has the appropriate keyboard). This would mean that new captcha-cracking algorithms would need to be developed for each script, and if the wikis are small, spammers would not bother.
Any developer interested in Wikimedia wiki CAPTCHAs should look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/CAPTCHA. There's some low-hanging bug fruit there.
MZMcBride