CAPTCHA

= CAPTCHA - captcha =

An acronym for "completely automated public Turing-test to tell computers and humans apart")

This is the technology employed here to make sure people editing our wiki's are humans and not spambots.

When you first do a "create account"* on this wiki, the rough-looking graphics at the bottom which you need to match to qualify you for enabling you to edit any page on this wiki is from a CAPTCHA module that is implemented in our system here.

see also: CweWiki:CAPTCHA

The process, as mentioned above, is merely put there to make sure we are making a best effort to allow genuine community members to contribute content, and block others with irrelevant or malicious intent from messing up our workspace.
 * our "create account" process actually does not create any real account/credentials for you.