On 5/16/14, Gergo Tisza gtisza@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