Re : This from brion; On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Sites like Flickr and Google image search keep this to a single toggle; > the default view is a "safe" search which excludes items which have been > marked as "adult" in nature, while making it easy to opt out of the > restricted search and get at everything if you want it..... > > .....Ultimately it may be most effective to implement something like this > (basically an expansion of the "bad image list" implemented long ago for > requiring a click-through on certain images which were being frequently > misused in vandalism) in combination with a push to create distinct > resources which really *are* targeted at kids -- an area in which > multiple versions targeted to different cultural groups are more likely > to be accepted than the "one true neutral article" model of Wikipedia. > > -- brion > > This is exceptionally heartening from my perspective - I believe a very simple and straightforward system like this would help a great deal. It is of course a great strength of wiki-processes to be able to allow large groups of volunteers to maintain appropriate image descriptive tagging which could power such a system - I've said before that I'm a little surprised that it's not embraced as a good way forward - but either ways, it's a good thing in my book. I believe this would be a valuable (and necessary) software addition from the foundation - is it really a fairly simple technical implementation, brion? others? cheers, Peter, PM. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l