Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Niabot has just come up with what I think is a great idea for addressing > the search problem you mention in your postscript. He's proposed a > clustered search function. (Anybody remember Vivísimo?) > > This could not just solve the problem of NSFW media popping up unexpectedly > in media searches in Wikipedias and Commons. It would generally make > Commons' search function more user-friendly, by grouping search results > according to categories. So adult media would no longer pop up in the > middle of unrelated searches, monarch butterflies would be separated from > other types of monarch, etc.
Interesting. :-) I encourage everyone to take a look at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming> and chime in. > Beyond wanting to drop the list a note about Niabot's idea, I also just > meant to ask the question that MZMcBride asked above. What is the status of > the image filter? Last year, we heard that in January, developers would > sift through the proposals on the Meta brainstorming pages, and select one > for implementation. But now it is March, and nothing seems to be happening. > Where are we on this? I still don't have an answer to the status question, but I did bang out a few thoughts on editorial judgment and the Wikimedia community here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editorial_judgment>. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
