On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:05 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.comwrote:
Just got a report and screenshot that a new user got this string for their captcha on en.wikipedia "nigerblew"
Though several people are pointing out that Niger is a country, I think it's reasonable to try and avoid things close to the two-g version of that word; nobody's denigrated by avoiding possibly offensive if misinterpreted words. I recall there's a filter list?...
I don't know if there's a filter list, but this has happened before. I've seen many of our past and current CAPTCHAs when we were testing the signup/login redesign. I recall seeing both "headshits" and "obamadick".
The CAPTCHA is two randomly generated English words. Personally, I think it might just be good to regenerate the CAPTCHAs entirely from time to time. AFAIK it's not that hard and our CAPTCHAs are weak anyway.
Steven