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?
I've heard that automated captcha cracking is common. Perhaps so, but if taking away captchas increases the workload of stewards and admins, that situation presents a need for tradeoffs between making registration be easy for humans and making registration be difficult for bots. Pine On Nov 6, 2014 9:34 PM, "Dan Garry" <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 6 November 2014 21:06, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > I think it would be best if we just removed the captcha, rather than > > deploying a new engine. > > > I'd absolutely love that. > > On the mobile app, almost everyone who tries to create an account is shown > a captcha. Of those people, 31% of them get the captcha wrong on their > first try, and 17% of those people give up trying to create an account. The > success rate for account creation is less than 50%, in no small part due to > the captcha. > > I'd love to eliminate giving our users that headache. > > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
