I do have concerns about censorship and can see both sides of the equations
but to suggest that "*built by user itself to "filter" images*" is an
unrealistic endeavour and to hold such a position is an
arogant[sp]assumption that people have the ability and resources to
create their own
filter. Its also ignorant of the needs of many of the people who benefit
from the work of our contributors, remember our basic principle is to make
knowledge freely available. Misconceptions about Wikipedias demographic of
being the male computer geek aged between 16-24 is only reinforced by such
comments, when we make such misconceptions we knowingly discriminate against
people outside that group, when we discriminate we no longer make the sum of
human knowldedge freely available.
Whether a person choose to use a filter or not it should be their own
choice, I know some of the content is an issue in certain environments and
by being personally able to filter out such content would enable greater
participation. If a voluntary self selective filter enable minorities
within our society to participate then that must be a good thing, those same
people can then participate and expand content within thier
knowledge/resource base that benefits all of us.
On 5 July 2011 06:35, Alex Brollo <alex.brollo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2011/7/2 Casey Brown <lists(a)caseybrown.org>
Although it isn't "official" or at all definitive, I believe the
"personal image filter mockup" would be interesting to look at if you
haven't already: <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Personal_image_filter>
I took a look, at first glance I dislike such an idea. I think that simply
a good set of categories freely classifying as many kinds of "offensive
contents" as needed from endless list of personal idiosyncrasies coupled
with some simple user-side js tool, freely built by user itself to "filter"
images, should be sufficient. Users should be simply encouraged to add such
categories to offending images, and to build filtering tools, by themselves
or with some help from willing friends; problem solved, IMHO.
And - what about wikipedia, or sister projects, using "offensive images"?
Is such a filtering procedure to be extended to articles using offensive
images too into any wiki?
Alex brollo
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