Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Richard Farmbrough
On 21/09/2011 19:05, Andre Engels wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Tobias Oelgarte< > tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> I still can't the a rational difference between images included in >> articles by the will of the community and text passages included by the >> will of the

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Richard Farmbrough
On 16/09/2011 23:55, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > Am 16.09.2011 22:53, schrieb Stephen Bain: >> Indeed. I think some of the problems some people are predicting have >> been drastically exaggerated. >> >> As long as the option to hide all images is also implemented, we can >> quite simply add a disclaim

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Richard Farmbrough
On 16/09/2011 18:13, Milos Rancic wrote: > I would repeat the best possible solution to end this: Implement it on > English Wikipedia -- you (those who want that filter) have some > numbers which would support that action -- and leave the rest of the > projects alone. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Rename proposal of Kurdish wikipedia

2011-09-22 Thread Richard Farmbrough
If there's along list, then it can get longer. :-) And I'm not sure ar: is a parallel - ar: is generally MSA its relation to arz: is more like Received English's relation to other dialects a member of the same family, rather than the language family as a whole which kur: is. The situation is

Re: [Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

2011-09-14 Thread Richard Farmbrough
Unfortunately the proposed mechanism (which cannot with integrity be disentangled from the proposal, for juts such reasons as this) would download the images regardless, the filter would merely affect the display. It is possible that even a smarter mechanism might suffer the same drawback if a