MZMcBride wrote: > My intention wasn't to come across as dismissive. On the other hand, if > people begin new conversations without having read the old conversations, it > sets back progress dramatically. The opening post didn't make any mention of > the old bugs or their progress, so I was trying to point out that these > issues were already known and there were already forums in which they could > and should be discussed.
There are such misunderstandings, so is sometimes the internet. > I think it's a real pity that CAPTCHAs are needed at all. They're a > pain-in-the-ass and their effectiveness against coordinated or sophisticated > attacks is dubious at best. And then you have projects like ptwiki which permanently make IPs pass captchas due to a bot attack which was being done three years ago [1]. After running this way for three years, it probably needs community consensus to change now the status quo. 1- http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/Arquivo/2008/Janeiro#Activa.C3.A7.C3.A3o_de_Captcha_para_edi.C3.A7.C3.B5es_por_IP > If you looked at all of the CAPTCHA-related bugs as a group (including > possibly removing the Python dependency), there's more than enough to be at > least considered for Summer of Code 2011. We should create a captcha tracking bug. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
