Wikimedia Security Team/Random Meetings/2020 01 21 Captcha Working Group

Date/time: January 21st, 2020 - 08:00 AM PDT

Attending: Gergo, Jan, Evan, Scott, Chase, David, Sam

Agenda


 * 1) As discussed previously, sketch out and review Evan's captcha proposal (captured within internal Google doc).
 * 2) Corey Floyd and Kate Chapman have now been made fully aware of the efforts of this working group.
 * 3) Initially, the ultimate aim of the aforementioned proposal was to investigate using certain limited funding to procure contractor services in an effort to incrementally improve Wikimedia's current captcha (FancyCaptcha within ext:ConfirmEdit) in three broad areas:
 * 4) Accessibility
 * 5) Localization/Internationalization
 * 6) Efficacy
 * 7) The issue of measurement has and will continue to be a concern based upon limitations in tooling and analysis as well as the overall effort to implement.

n.b. The above plan of action has been temporarily halted as of 2020-01-24 so as to further discuss and coordinate efforts with Product.