On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Tobias Oelgarte <tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com> wrote: > No one said it would be evil. But since we already have working > solutions for this projects, why do we need another, now global, > solution, based on categories? Thats when it becomes hairy.
The Board of Trustees didn't pass a resolution asking for the implementation of a filter based on categories. The Board asked Sue "in consultation with the community, to develop and implement a personal image hiding feature that will enable readers to easily hide images hosted on the projects that they do not wish to view, either when first viewing the image or ahead of time through preference settings." Based on the consultation and discussion that's taken place so far, I think it's pretty safe to say that a uniform approach based on categories has about a snowball's chance in hell of actually being widely adopted, used and embraced by the community, if not triggering strong opposition and antagonism that's completely against our goals and our mission. With that in mind, I would humbly propose that we kill with fire at this point the idea of a category-based image filtering system. There are, however, approaches to empowering both editors and readers that do not necessarily suffer from the same problems. Erik _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
