Re: Switching to Asirra or a better captcha?

Sounds good to me!

Assuming others are okay with this, Doug, are you the one to flip the
switch?

--Alex

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Taylor Costello <nottaylorcostello@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Yes actually, there is one for reCaptcha. (:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#ReCaptcha
>
> We already have it installed, someone would just have to switch the
> settings in the Localsettings.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Michael Del Tito <mdeltito@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Is there any aversion to reCaptcha? Out of the available MW plugins, its
>> probably one of the most accessible for disabled users who are browsing
>> with a screen reader (not sure if/how Asirra handles this). This might not
>> be a concern considering the audience, but it is something I've dealt with
>> recently when dealing with ADA compliance on several university sites so I
>> figured I'd mention it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Taylor Costello <
>> nottaylorcostello@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We've been getting spam account creation and some accounts that appear
>>> to be bots<http://docs.webplatform.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=9>
>>> .<http://docs.webplatform.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=9> I've
>>> noticed that we have been using this<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#MathCaptcha>for registering a new account. I was hoping maybe we could switch
>>> to this <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#Asirra>instead.
>>>
>>> It's a little ugly and you might have to beautify it to make the it
>>> match the site well but it works a lot better for preventing bot accounts.
>>> Bots have a hard time identifying cats from dogs. They get past that math
>>> captcha pretty easily though. Does anyone have any better captcha ideas?
>>>
>>> I'm curious if anyone knows something that would work better or if you
>>> guys thinking switching it is necessary.
>>>
>>
>>
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