On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Tobias Oelgarte <tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Isn't that the same as putting some images inside the category > "inappropriate content"? Will it not leave the impression to the reader > that "we" think that this is something not anybody should see? Can it be > easily used by providers to filter out this images?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Censor&namespace=1&limit=500 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Bad_image_list http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_men Simply in the process of doing our normal editorial work, we're already providing a number of ways to identify content in the broad area of "someone might be upset of this" or even in specific categories, and of course censorship also often relies on deriving characteristics from the content itself without any need for additional metadata (keyword filters, ranging from simple to sophisticated; image pattern matching, etc.). It's not clear that a low-granularity identification of content that some editors, in some projects, have identified as potentially objectionable to some readers, for a wide variety of different reasons, adds meaningfully to the existing toolset of censors. A censor who's going to nuke all that content from orbit would probably be equally happy to just block everything that has the word "sex" in it; in other words, they are a reckless censor, and they will apply a reckless degree of censorship irrespective of our own actions. Erik _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
