On 5/16/14, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
For those of you who are not following wikimedia-l:
you might be interested
in this discussion about searches with harmless keywords bringing up very
NSFW images (an old and highly controversial topic):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/71770/focus=71903
(I am linking the (currently) last few mails of the thread; the discussion
leading up to them is also interesting, but terribly long.)
Just for reference, we already have a feature available on commons to
make a {{nsfw}} template which would kill (or significantly decrease
the priority) of tagged images in search (For the new cirrussearch.
See [1]). At this point it is a social, not technical issue as to
whether to use such a functionality. Admittedly CirrusSearch is only a
beta feature, and not default yet, but the roadmap said the target
date for it becoming default on commons is very roughly about now.
Actually suggesting the feature be used on commons, well that's a
flamewar I want to stay far away from, but if anyone wants to poke
that bear, its just an edit to COM:VP away.
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cirrussearch-boost-templates
(Its currently used to increase priority of featured images. It could
just as easily be used to decrease priority of nsfw images) See also
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#boost-templates:
--bawolff