I agree with David Gerard's suggestion above: this is a solution that will meet a variety of needs, and is therefore value-neutral. It can be applied to more than categories--someone with a moderately slow connection might wish to disable images in articles above a certain size, or articles containing many images. Personally, I sometimes disable image loading in my browser selectively in looking at certain sites where the images interfere with use of the material I actually want.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:48 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 May 2010 17:45, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sure, and that's inevitable. You aren't going to please people who >> have ideological problems with Wikipedia's entire premise. But >> leaving aside people who think nudity is morally wrong on principle, >> we are still left with a very large number of people who would simply >> prefer not to see it. Or would at least *sometimes* prefer not to see >> it (at work, when kids are around, etc.). If these people want to >> look at even totally innocuous articles like [[Human]], they will be >> forced to look at images they don't want to see, with no warning. > > > You're a developer. Write something for logged-in users to block > images in local or Commons categories they don't want to see. You're > the target market, after all. > > (If that isn't enough and you insist it has to be something for > default, then I fear you are unlikely to gain consensus on this.) > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > 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