On 18 June 2012 08:00, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > > On Monday, 18 June 2012 at 02:44, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > > > Every stupid bot could do this. There is no "running out of the box" > > solution at the moment, but the effort to set up something like this > > would be minimal compared to anything else. > > > > I would say that Citizendium failed because they did no automatic > > updating. What i have in mind is delayed mirror with update control. It > > is not meant to be edited by hand. It is a subset of the current content > > selected by the host (one or many users) of the page himself. It is > > essentially a whitelist for Wikipedia that only contains > > selected/checked content. That way a "childrens Wiki" could easily be > > created, by not including any unwanted content, while the effort stays > > minimal. (Not more effort then to create your own book from a list of > > already written articles) > > {{sofixit}} > > > If all the people in favour of filters had spent their time building them > rather than arguing about them, we would have had a wide array of different > solutions, without any politics or drama. > > That said, if people want to filter Wikipedia, a client-side solution > rather than a filtered mirror is preferable. If a filtered mirror were to > come into existence and become popular, this would mean that people would > just filter all of main Wikipedia, which would prevent people from editing > Wikipedia. A client-side solution means they are still looking at > wikipedia.org just without naughty pics and doesn't interfere with > editing. It also reduces the need for any servers.
The technical solution is a fairly trivial part of the problem; a client-side filter could probably be put together in a few days IMO. The *hard* problem is convincing the "not censored" abusers that it's a useful feature for our community. Tom _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l