Good point. Perhaps there is a case to be made for a small-scale experiment of removing the CAPTCHA. I suggest consulting the stewards for their thoughts. We have at least one steward who is supposedly an expert on spambots, and his input may be valuable. You might also consult the admins of whichever community you would like to use for the home wiki of the experiment.
Pine On Nov 6, 2014 10:54 PM, "Dan Garry" dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 6 November 2014 22:39, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm interested both in improving our user stats and stamping out
spambots.
Dan, how do we know that those 17 percent were predominantly humans?
We don't know for certain that they're human. That said, why would a spambot try to use the Wikipedia app? You're only creating extra hurdles for yourself by doing so. I've seen no evidence so far that anyone except humans use the Wikipedia app. Well, and Googlebot, but it reports itself to us using a special user agent and also only reads articles. :-)
Dan
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