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.
You would need to reparse on edit (which changes categories) all pages
including the image. Even if the image comes from commons or another
ForeignRepo.
Not as easy, I think, but this is a long wanted proposal, see bug 8298/9616.