Dear Derk-jan, As for 1), I think youtube can be compared in populairity and size with wikipedia, and in videos surpasses commons. Youtube enables its visitors to tag videos as adult. see for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA22WSVlCZ4
kind regards, Teun Spaans On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman <d.j.hart...@gmail.com>wrote: > This message is CC'ed to other people who might wish to comment on this > potential approach > --- > > Dear reader at FOSI, > > As a member of the Wikipedia community and the community that develops the > software on which Wikipedia runs, I come to you with a few questions. > Over the past years Wikipedia has become more and more popular and > omnipresent. This has led to enormous problems, because for the first time, > a largely uncensored system has to work in the boundaries of a world that is > largely censored. For libraries and schools this means that they want to > provide Wikipedia and its related projects to their readers, but are > presented with the problem of what some people might consider, information > that is not "child-safe". They have several options in that case, either > blocking completely or using context aware filtering software that may make > mistakes, that can cost some of these institutions their funding. > > Similar problems are starting to present themselves in countries around the > world, differing views about sexuality between northern and southern europe > for instance. Add to that the censoring of images of Muhammad, Tiananman > square, the Nazi Swastika, and a host of other problems. Recently there has > been concern that all this all-out-censoring of content by parties around > the world is damaging the education mission of the Wikipedia related > projects because so many people are not able to access large portions of our > content due to a small (think 0.01% ) part of our other content. > > This has led some people to infer that perhaps it is time to rate the > content of Wikipedia ourselves, in order to facilitate external censoring of > material, hopefully making the rest of our content more accessible. > According to statements around the web ICRA ratings are probably the most > widely supported rating by filtering systems. Thus we were thinking of > adding autogenerated ICRA RDF tags to each individual page describing the > rating of the page and the images contained within them. I have a few > questions however, both general and technical. > > 1: If I am correctly informed, Wikipedia would be the first website of this > size to label their content with ratings, is this correct? > 2: How many content filters understand the RDF tags > 3: How many of those understand multiple labels and path specific labeling. > This means: if we rate the path of images included on the page different > from the page itself, do filters block the entire content, or just the > images ? (Consider the Virgin Killer album cover on the Virgin Killer > article, if you are aware of that controversial image > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer) > 4: Do filters understand per page labeling ? Or do they cache the first RDF > file they encounter on a website and use that for all other pages of the > website ? > 5: Is there any chance the vocabulary of ICRA can be expanded with new > ratings for non-Western world sensitive issues ? > 6: Is there a possibility of creating a separate "namespace" that we could > potentially use for our own labels ? > > I hope that you can help me answer these questions, so that we may continue > our community debate with more informed viewpoints about the possibilities > of content rating. If you have additional suggestions for systems or > problems that this web-property should account for, I would more than > welcome those suggestions as well. > > Derk-Jan Hartman > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
