I think it would be best if we just removed the captcha, rather than
deploying a new engine.
-- Tim Starling
On 07/11/14 13:13, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
Wasn't a new CAPTCHA engine merged a couple weeks
ago? What's the
status of that? If I remember, the goal of the new engine was to
make the CAPTCHA more difficult for bots, so it may (or may not)
make things worse for humans. Have we ever done any research to
find out how likely humans are to be able to solve our captchas?
Ryan Kaldari
On Nov 6, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
My apologies if this is the wrong place to start a discussion on
this, but it's a better place than nowhere. I recently took part
in two very different Wikipedia workshops -- one in Uganda for
schoolchildren aged 14-17, and one Bodø, Norway, for GLAM people
aged 35-55. One glaringly obvious barrier of entry that was
common for both groups is that the CAPTCHA we use is too freaking
hard.
The main concern is obviously that it is really hard to read, but
there are also some other issues, namely that all the fields in
the user registration form (except for the username) are wiped if
you enter the CAPTCHA incorrectly. So when you make a mistake,
not only do you have to re-type a whole new CAPTCHA (where you
may make another mistake), you also have to re-type the password
twice *and* your e-mail address. This takes a long time,
especially if you're not a fast typer (which was the case for
the first group), or if you are on a tablet or phone (which was
the case for some in the second group).
So I would like to start a discussion about changing to a CAPTCHA
that is more user-friendly, and hopefully one that isn't as
English/Latin-alphabet-centric as the one we currently use. If
Ugandan children and old Norwegian people, which all use the
Latin alphabet, have such problems deciphering the CAPTCHA, what
about people speaking languages that don't use the Latin
alphabet? I would prefer something more simplistic, like some
sort of math or image-based CAPTCHA, instead of the current
CAPTCHA we use.
-- mvh Jon Harald Søby
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
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