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Any File wrote:

Brion Vibber wrote:

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I've fixed up the image-based captcha to read from subdirectories, which should put less load on the file server.

Sorry for asking more information about captcha, but I have some problem in understanding how the various system message works.

I have found 4 system messages in Allmessages

• captcha-createaccount
• captcha-edit
• fancycaptcha-createaccount
• fancycaptcha-edit

(as weel as some other related messages like captcha-createaccount-fail )

According to what I have been seeing on it.wikinews the captcha-createaccount message was used some time ago and was asked to enter a word displayed distorted in an image, then the same message was used, but what the user had to do was to solve a math operation, than from today (or yesterday) the fancycaptcha-createaccount is used and an image of a distorted word is displayed.

What are the system message that are used?

The ones above. The two pairs were separated a few weeks ago to make it easier to have distinct directions for the math sample implementation ('captcha') and the image-based one ('fancycaptcha').

Can I assume that, form now on, image of a word will be displayed and the user asked to insert the distorted word displayed in the image?

Unless/until it changes.

By the way in the default (English) message it is written "... enter the words ... ", the plural is used, but I have seen only one word on the image. (Well actually I have made just a few tests)

It's always two words combined.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)