On Feb 5, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Ian Woollard wrote:
That's a
good point. Perhaps we can address this issue in the short
term by simply having more documentation pointing people towards
their
browser controls. We should add a second paragraph to WP:CENSOR that
suggests this approach.
It seems to me that you're effectively saying that many Moslems
shouldn't be able to see any of the wikipedia's images, and trying to
enshrine this as policy.
If that's not what you're saying, then I'd like to know what in
practice the difference is, given that there's no domain/browser way
to avoid just these images.
I wasn't thinking specifically about the images of Mohammed issue.
I was trying to suggest a general solution for a class of people who
want to read Wikipedia but may find some images objectionable or
disturbing. Given that there are daily admonitions regarding WP:CENSOR
(for complaints about various images) it would be helpful to provide
some guidance on how to work around the problem rather than just
saying "tough luck, deal with it."
Yes, hiding all images is a rather crude tool to deal with the
Mohammed issue. However, that specific issue should not prevent us
from providing helpful (generic) information for alternative ways to
use Wikipedia for the image averse. Perhaps just add a link to [[How
to turn off images in my browser]]?
--Noah--