+1 Andreas. <br><br>:) <br><br>You said what I was thinking in such an eloquent way that I could never. <br><br>Is there a barnstar for "calm and clear communication?" :D <br><br>-Sarah<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Andreas Kolbe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jayen466@yahoo.com">jayen466@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(69, 69, 69);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div style="margin-top:25px;margin-right:24px;margin-bottom:22px;margin-left:29px;overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:hidden">
<div><div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>John,</div><div><br><blockquote style="margin-left:5px;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(16, 16, 255);padding-left:5px">
<div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> John Vandenberg <<a href="mailto:jayvdb@gmail.com" target="_blank">jayvdb@gmail.com</a>><br>
</font>> (Searching for "levee" in Commons brings up an image of a<br>> naked Suicide Girl called Levee in third place.)<br><br>Its a thumbnail for !@#$ sake, and anyone who finds that image<br>offensive should turn off their internet connection.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><span style="font-size:16px"><div><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></div></span><span style="font-size:16px">It's a perfectly nice image, but does it answer the user's need? In most cases probably not. If I google levee, I see levees, not nude girls:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=c&q=levee&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1041&bih=638" style="color:rgb(35, 71, 134);outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial" target="_blank">http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=c&q=levee&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1041&bih=638</a><br>
</span></div><div><br></div><div>If I want to google for pictures of Levee, I google for "Levee Suicide Girls", and there she is:</div><div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=c&q=levee&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1041&bih=638#um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=levee+suicide+girl&pbx=1&oq=levee+suicide+girl&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=127182l129981l0l130379l15l15l0l11l0l0l291l930l0.1.3l4l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=120e52a58330422e&biw=1041&bih=638" style="color:rgb(35, 71, 134);outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial" target="_blank">http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=c&q=levee&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1041&bih=638#um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=levee+suicide+girl&pbx=1&oq=levee+suicide+girl&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=127182l129981l0l130379l15l15l0l11l0l0l291l930l0.1.3l4l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=120e52a58330422e&biw=1041&bih=638</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I guess Commons should give more weight to categories, and less weight to file names. So when I google cucumber, it should show me images in the cucumber category first of all, and not images that happen to have cucumber in the title.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Brandon, is there something developers could do in this regard?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin-left:5px;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(16, 16, 255);padding-left:5px">
<div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt">I am sure you'll be appalled that libraries include nude pictures in<br>
their search results, often when searching for something else.<br><br><a rel="nofollow" href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture/result?q=contemporary+north+america+20th+century" style="color:rgb(35, 71, 134);outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial" target="_blank">http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture/result?q=contemporary+north+america+20th+century</a><br>
<br>fix the metadata.<br><br>create a gallery page.<br><br>create a category and populate it.<br><br>etc<br><br>p.s. abstract art offends me. Can we please remove media
related to<br>John Levee's from the Commons search results for the term 'Levee'. ;-)<br><br>> We should be under no illusion that we can find all search terms whose<br>> results violate the principle of least surprise, presenting adult images for<br>
> everyday search terms.<br>><br>> New such situations arise on a daily basis, each time someone uploads an<br>> explicit file that has a plausible search term in its name and<br>> description (try searching Commons for "eating", and then search for<br>
> "drinking"; or try finding images of Prince Albert).<br><br>The ordering of the search results isnt ideal. Have you raised a bug?<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt">
<br></div><div style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><font size="3">The thing is, John, it's not a bug. How is it a bug? The image is called "Drinking
urine" or whatever, and so it's a valid search result for "drinking". No doubt, a bunch of people would argue that it would be non-neutral to exclude it from the search results for drinking, because Wikipedia is not censored, and we don't care if people are unhappy with our service, because that would be non-neutral. ;)</font></div>
<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><Imagine rant here.></div><div style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br></div>
<div><blockquote style="margin-left:5px;font-family:times, serif;font-size:12pt;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(16, 16, 255);padding-left:5px"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt">
<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times, serif"><div>It puts too much weight on the filename, which isnt good because<br></div>recommend against rename, so the current search results are gamable by<br>the uploader.<br>
<br>> We should simply offer safe search, like Google does.<br><br>Google provides safe search. They need to convert 'the internet' into<br>a search results page that their customer wants to see, and the<br>Internet has a whole lot of stuff that 99% of the world never wants to<br>
see.<br><br>Wikipedia provides encyclopedic information.<br><br>Commons provides a depository of media, and if you search for keywords<br>in the metadata you'll see thumbnails of the matching media.</div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div><br></div>I find Google safe search seriously useful, because it gives me a choice, and enables me to tailor my search to my requirements. If I want to see porn, I can see porn. If I'm looking for something else, I can prevent my search being flooded with
porn. </div><div><br></div><div>If I am a researcher looking for images of Prince Albert on Commons, I would appreciate not being forced to wade through dozens of images of penises with rings in them to find the image I'm looking for.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&redirs=1&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns9=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1&search=Prince+albert&limit=500&offset=0" style="color:rgb(35, 71, 134);outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;outline-color:initial" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&redirs=1&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns9=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1&search=Prince+albert&limit=500&offset=0</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>We will not attract a more mature audience until we get our act
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