On 7/22/10 1:56 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is a perennial proposal. It's an idea I like, as it puts control >> in the hands of the viewer rather than third parties. All it requires >> is someone to code something that passes muster as being unlikely to >> melt the servers. >> >> cc to wikitech-l - how feasible is something that allows users to stop >> display of arbitrary image categories and/or subcategories? > > It's entirely feasible. I even have an outline written up: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Simetrical/Censorship > > Maybe if I have time left after category sorting this summer, > Wikimedia could have me do this.
Interesting proposal. I think it's on the right track. Pushing censorship to the browser means that we have to reimplement it where ever our content is viewed -- including mobile sites and other alternative ways of browsing Wikipedia and sister sites. But that seems like it's doable, particularly since you're exploiting CSS classes. Blurring seems a bit deluxe to me -- it's probably adequate to just block the image and show something in its place with the same dimensions. (At Flickr, they use an image of greyish-black static for this). But I think any proposal that works is going to look like yours, given the realities of how Wikimedia content is hosted. -- Neil Kandalgaonkar |) <ne...@wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
