On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:12:04PM -0400, Risker wrote:
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> Oh please, Kim; this is nonsense.
Be careful with what you call nonsense. :-)
> Commercially available software is, even
> right now, blocking certain content areas by category and/or keywords for
> (at minimum) Commons and English Wikipedia;
Yes. These tools also have a category system. That category system
is structured very differently from the commons category system.
Just because mediawiki uses a database and wordpress uses a
database, it doesn't mean that the two databases are
interchangable. That's just silly! (try it and see if you don't
believe me)
The same is true for categories (which are just a particular way
to structure a database anyway). Just because mediawiki uses
categories, and ACME CensorThemAll(tm) uses categories, doesn't
mean that they are necessarily interchangable in any way.
> I've seen it in operation.
Let me check: Have seen your image filter software actually
directly use categories from commons? Are you sure?
> So there's no reason to believe that the current category
> system, which we use legitimately for content-finding, is not
> amenable to use in exactly the same way that an
> image-filter-specific category would be.
It would require some amount of remapping before it could be
practically used in that manner.
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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