Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-03-03 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Happy Melon wrote: > But > putting out nine pictures of humans and one picture of a cat and asking for > the "odd one out" is no easier to misinterpret than a squiggle that might > be a G or might be a 6. > It seems to me that putting nine pictures of humans and on

Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-03-03 Thread Steven Walling
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > If you display 8 images and the user has to pick one, then even by random > guessing the attacker has a 12.5% chance of passing the captcha. That's not > good at all. Finding "all matching" is slightly better since it reduces the > gu

Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-03-03 Thread Happy Melon
On 28 February 2014 18:29, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Mansi Gokhale >wrote: > > > Then there's the issue of different interpretation. Take for example > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Find-all-captcha-idea.png. Is the > second image wearing glasses? Or is

Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-03-02 Thread Matthew Flaschen
I'm adding the design list. I talked about this recently with a couple of the designers. Matt Flaschen On 02/28/2014 12:07 PM, Mansi Gokhale wrote: hello, These are some approaches i can think of instead of a text based captcha. The image idea where users are asked to spot the odd one out l

Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-02-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: > A traditional captcha using only A-Z is 1/308915776. > That should be "a traditional *6 letter* captcha using only A-Z". Sorry for the noise. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _

Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-02-28 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Mansi Gokhale wrote: > The image idea where users are asked to spot the odd one out like > demonstrated or find all the similar images like mentioned in > here > If you display 8 images and the user has to pick one, then ev

Re: [Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-02-28 Thread Arthur Richards
I think this is an intriguing approach - particularly for use cases on mobile devices. We display captchas as necessary through MobileFrontend when they are triggered, but the mobile experience is horrible (arguably the whole captcha experience is horrible regardless of the medium, but that's anoth

[Wikitech-l] captcha idea: proposal for gnome outreach for women 14

2014-02-28 Thread Mansi Gokhale
hello, These are some approaches i can think of instead of a text based captcha. The image idea where users are asked to spot the odd one out like demonstrated or find all the similar images like mentioned in here . Also a picture with a part chipped in co