I made some mockups to illustrate some of the ideas on captchas that could
be less problematic for non-English speakers, improve the general UX and
rely on images from commons.
- Panorama captcha:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama-captcha-idea.png
Based on tagging parts of a panorama picture with the appropriate word (in
the UI language or Basic English words).
- 'Who is who' captcha:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Find-all-captcha-idea.png
Based on finding from a set of similar images the ones that fit a specific
criteria (with an image describing also the criteria).
- 'Find the different' captcha:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Find-the-different-captcha-idea.png
Based on finding the image that is different from a set of images.
These captchas will probably generate new problems for the technical side,
require adjustments to reduce the chance of a machine to solve them, or may
just be unfeasible to generate, but I wanted to provide these ideas in case
anybody else may use it as a base for improve on any technical weakness
they may have and make them at least as hard to solve for a machine as
text-based captchas are.
Pau
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Helder . <helder.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Everton Zanella
Alvarenga
<ezalvarenga(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
After working on campus with new
editors in Brazil, I've checked this is a real obstacle, since most
people here cannot ready English at all.
I'd like to know if there are plans to solve this issue - I hope I
don't sound rude, maybe this can be a minor issue when we don't see
the difficulties people from a different place can face. I think this
is important for Wikipedias other than the English one (just read
people comments in the bug) and we can be loosing new contributors
because of their first impressions. Thanks,
It should be noted that this is the only Wikipedia where the captcha
is triggered for any edits made by anonymous or unconfirmed users[1],
not just for edits which add urls.
So, those users are affected by any issues of captcha on ALL their edits.
Best regards,
Helder
[1]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/mediawiki-config.git;a=b…
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