Being technically able to type the local script somehow is a
prerequisite for participation in the wiki. Therefore it should be okay
to have the captcha in local script. It won't impede those users
familiar with the wiki's local language. But it will potentially impede
foreign users. Therefore it would be useful to provide a drop-down menu
that allows you to choose the script of the captcha. That way every user
can choose the script that fits best.
Instead of captchas like "shipsneeds" we of course need words in the
local language. It shouldn't be hard to do some statistical analysis of
existing articles on the wiki and to collect a sample of common words of
limited length that can be combined to form local captchas. (I guess the
above-mentioned script drop-down should be a script/language combination
drop-down then.)
Marcus Buck
User:Slomox