I spoke to some people at the Internet Archive about the ReCaptcha situation, and learned something interesting.
Apparently, although IA provided a large dataset to ReCaptcha, they never got any data back, and then after the Google acquisition, they got shut out completely.
I highly recommend we get IA involved if at all possible - it sounds like they have a data set they could provide us (identical to the one they provided ReCaptcha), or at least know exactly how to generate one. We could, you know, ACTUALLY provide them with the results and be good open content citizens.
- Trevor
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.comwrote:
2012/1/11 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On 11 January 2012 17:19, Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com
wrote:
We could also decorate our captcha with "this captcha helps transcribing <BOOK TITLE> + link".
Hah, use it for editor recruitment!
That was the point, indeed.
Cristian
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