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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by NorwegianDude on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:51PM (#24925525)
Cool project, but I do find it quite ironic that it's named friendly captcha when it's not a captcha.
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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by Eldt on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:59PM (#24925573)
How would you define "CAPTCHA"?
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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by perryizgr8 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @12:02AM (#24927059)
The original expansion was "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
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Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab by jimmydorry on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:52PM (#24927006)
CAPTCHA: a computer program or system intended to distinguish human from machine input, typically as a way of thwarting spam and automated extraction of data from websites

I would say this Oxford Languages dictionary definition is close enough.

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