On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Luke Welling WMF <lwell...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > That was not the end of the problem I was referring to. We know our > specific captcha is broken at turning away machines. As far as I am aware > we do not know how many humans are being turned away by the difficulty of > it. It's a safe bet that it is non-zero given the manual account requests > we get, but given that we have people to do those kinds of experiments it > would make sense to get a number from them before making any drastic > decisions based on a reasonable gut feeling. I don't think anybody claims > to have a perfect solution to the spam vs usability balancing act, so it's > possible we'll try (and measure) a few approaches.
I think the impact on humans will be mensurable once actions which trigger a CAPTCHA are logged: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41522 https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/40553/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
