On 30/03/2014 10:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Please give a quick look to the images for the languages you know: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/-RRtFyoJji/captchas

If you spot something we're not aware of, please comment: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309#c32

Nemo

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Re: GV captchas

I suppose it depends what you're going for.  At present it looks reasonable, words combined together arbitrarily to type out.  The one thing I would suggest is maybe excluding words with a cedilla (ç) as not everyone knows how to type this, and they may confuse similar words with c or c-cedilla, but it's not crucial.

If you actually want the captchas to make any sense in terms of word combination and construction, that would be a whole different issue.  There's inflection, rules on what happens when words are run together (spelling changes for one), and so on.

You don't need to worry much about swearwords because it's deeply unlikely any online Manx source includes them, people didn't write that stuff down when dictionaries were being compiled.  There may well be some awkward terms

Specific problems:

Quite a few of the l look like i in this font, which seems problematic.

There are also a number of captchas that resemble actual words, but aren't.  I don't know whether this is the intention or not.  I also don't know whether you care about using proper names or not.

I don't recognise the word "leight" from "leightfoalsey" and can't find it in the dictionary. (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-image_6f19dc71_e4c08e400830897a.png)
Should this be "leigh"?

Neuscanshoily ??? https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-image_8d1470bc_b86c75720dedec45.png
Looks like "neuscanshoil" with a random -y added, a hangover from English behaviour?

"Broaçhaaue" doesn't mean anything. "Broaçh" does but "aaue" doesn't (though Aaue is a proper name) so this is a weird combination.  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-image_36cf73e7_97cddc7c0bcee28f.png

Perick is also a proper name  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-image_219f4c29_edce0940da4761d2.png

This one is particularly hard to make out https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-image_1243d3dd_34d776b8b8a22bd5.png

The form "vaayl" is a rare grammar-induced form of an unusual word "faayl" (turf-cutting spade).  It's easy enough to make out, but if you're aiming for this to be words people might know then I'd change it.  I might change this to "faayl" anyway.  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-image_6218fa9f_504eb3e715015efd.png

Donal also a proper noun https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-image_197164d2_11f41609768e1441.png

Hard to read, could be "hiu shee" or "niu shee" https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-image_a316a309_48021bf82417ab12.png

This one means "arctic castration" (spoiy = castration).  Not obscene, but maybe not for everyone?  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i2af7xvn4y593gc/sRpxnsZPXk/captchas/gv#lh:null-image_ef944883_30e897543cb08fbf.png


Cheers,
Shimmin