On 7/22/10 1:56 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David
Gerard<dgerard(a)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 |) <neilk(a)wikimedia.org>