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@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvarenga@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=bl...
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