·CCing to wikitech (original message at the bottom)
Zachary Harden wrote:
Greetings Brianna,
When making an account, or getting the password wrong, on English
Wikipedia, there is a CAPTCHA. When adding external links as an anon. or
as a new account, there is a math formula you need to perform.
I just checked. I get the full captcha.
All foundation wikis have the same captcha (FancyCaptcha). It is
sometimes switched to math formulas if captcha images are getting too
much bandwidth. Saying that "The English language Wikipedia does not use
a CAPTCHA" is completely wrong.
The only difference between languages are the descriptions, which may
provide more or less help to "get the account".
> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:36:40 +1100
> From: brianna.laugher
> To: commons-l
> Subject: [Commons-l] Commons in the CAPTCHA Hall of Shame
>
>
http://www.pineight.com/rant/captcha/
>
> Commons is listed under "confusing examples":
>
> Wikimedia Commons links to Special:Captcha which mentions (but does
> not obviously link to) Commons:Contact us which links to Commons:Help
> desk, which permits anonymous posting. (Some other Wikimedia sites,
> such as English language Wiktionary, use the same CAPTCHA. The English
> language Wikipedia does not use a CAPTCHA at all.)
>
> Presumably they're referring to signing up for a new account. (I think
> captchas are also triggered when anon users introduce new external
> links.)
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny that enwp doesn't have the same captcha?? I
> thought all WMF projects had the same one now?
>
> cheers
> Brianna