On 10/11/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Eurgh. That's ... silly. Do we have any readers
with ins at CMU who
can explain to them the advantages of having it on a top 10 website in
a convincing and saleable manner?
To be fair ... there aren't all that many activities on WP that
trigger the captcha: Account creation, login attempts after repeated
failures, external links by anons.
I'd be somewhat surprised if we had more than 15,000 captchas solved
per day. We're a traffic monster, but most of that traffic is reads.
Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I expect we wouldn't want to participate in any
case if it required
using their servers, which it seems to in the general case: would we
want Wikipedia captchas to break if they have some downtime? Could we
implement some kind of reliable way to substitute our own captchas should
that occur?
There is also the question of who benefits from the recaptcha work:
I've not seen a lot of real information on that.
It would be interesting if they published a large database of problem
word images -> recaptcha validated recognitions to help people with
OCR research, if nothing else.