On 10/04/2008, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
If reCAPTCHA were free software - or if someone duplicated its functionality in free software - and it were running on a Wikimedia server, would it (or something like it) be something we'd likely run? Given its usefulness to the world of getting public domain stuff from image to text form.
If you mean their general project of using text image captchas to do spell-checking of scanned documents, I'm not sure we'd bother. :)
Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. I'm wondering if there'd be anything in that for us. Do the Wikisources ever do transcription projects?
- d.