User:AalekhN/GSoC proposal 2014

Multilingual, usable and effective captchas

 * Public URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AalekhN/GSoC_proposal_2014
 * Bugzilla report:
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32695
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309


 * Announcement: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2014#Multilingual.2C_usable_and_effective_captchas.

Name and contact information
Name:Aalekh Nigam Email:aalekh1993@rediffmail.com IRC or IM networks/handle(s):aalekhN Location:New Delhi,India Timezone: Kolkata,INDIA, UTC+5:30 Typical working hours:12:00PM to 3:00AM until August,05:00PM to 3:00PM after August

Synopsis
Current CAPTCHAs implemented in many Wikimedia Projects are mostly broken, lacks localization and are many times vulnerable.This project aims to design an Multilingual, usable and effective captcha,which will be much more secure (difficult for bots to solve) ,user friendly (easier for humans to solve) and Multilingual for Mediawiki Projects...the new solution will also be useful for Blind and Visually Impaired users.

Scope of Work
There could be three best approaches to produce required result for the project:


 * Captcha on the basis of Selection of Particular Object: The following type of image will be shown as follow:

the only possible answer to given captcha is selecting images in increasing numerical order as shown below:

other possible questions for the captchas could be "Select the images in which man is wearing sunglasses?" as shown below: