[WikiEN-l] reCAPTCHA

[David Gerard]

2009/9/16 Judson Dunn <cohesion at sleepyhead.org>:

> Just FYI, I know people had talked about this before in the context of
> using reCAPTCHA on wikipedia. The consensus, if I remember correctly,
> was that while it was open source, they required you to use their
> servers which would be an unacceptable point of failure.


Not open source, or we could have run our own instance.

Anyone want to reimplement it?


> Anyway, google acquired them today, so I guess there is some
> possibility that might change, although no discussion of this yet (and
> allow self-hosting)
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html


It'd e nice, though I can't see it happening.


- d.