I made some mockups to illustrate some of the ideas on captchas that could be less problematic for non-English speakers, improve the general UX and rely on images from commons.
- Panorama captcha: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama-captcha-idea.png Based on tagging parts of a panorama picture with the appropriate word (in the UI language or Basic English words). - 'Who is who' captcha: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Find-all-captcha-idea.png Based on finding from a set of similar images the ones that fit a specific criteria (with an image describing also the criteria). - 'Find the different' captcha: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Find-the-different-captcha-idea.png Based on finding the image that is different from a set of images. These captchas will probably generate new problems for the technical side, require adjustments to reduce the chance of a machine to solve them, or may just be unfeasible to generate, but I wanted to provide these ideas in case anybody else may use it as a base for improve on any technical weakness they may have and make them at least as hard to solve for a machine as text-based captchas are. Pau On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Helder . <helder.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga > <ezalvare...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > After working on campus with new > > editors in Brazil, I've checked this is a real obstacle, since most > > people here cannot ready English at all. > > > > I'd like to know if there are plans to solve this issue - I hope I > > don't sound rude, maybe this can be a minor issue when we don't see > > the difficulties people from a different place can face. I think this > > is important for Wikipedias other than the English one (just read > > people comments in the bug) and we can be loosing new contributors > > because of their first impressions. Thanks, > > It should be noted that this is the only Wikipedia where the captcha > is triggered for any edits made by anonymous or unconfirmed users[1], > not just for edits which add urls. > So, those users are affected by any issues of captcha on ALL their edits. > > Best regards, > Helder > > [1] > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/mediawiki-config.git;a=blob;f=wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php;h=5dd1bb63d399f0ba7bc49a4656dfed9109b550da;hb=HEAD#l8470 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Pau Giner Interaction Designer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
