On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Thinboy00 thinboy00@gmail.com wrote:
Will this need a sitewide installation in monobook.js (or common.js)? Also, can you make it so that if scripting is disabled, the images (or tables) won't load? On second thought, whether they should load in that case is debatable.
Alex G schrieb:
Nice idea. I'm thinking we should try and go ahead with this...if images are showing by default, there really isn't much "bad" about this
solution.
AFAIK this would go in sitewide monobook.js, correct? We could also
add a
Special:Prefs option to have the images default showing/default hiding.
Yes, it would need a sitewide installation in monobook.js
Per default and without javascript all tables are expanded and the images are visible.
From what I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Muhammad/images#new_compromise
I don't see much chance for it to get implemented though.
There are multiple objections:
1. Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles I'm not sure, whether it is a disclaimer. And the opposition is chary on that, so I have to guess. Is it a) they don't want a permanent article message box. There are many articles with {{POV}} or {{disputed}} message boxes, some of them stay for years. b) they object the text in the message box. If anything can be regarded as a disclaimer, it is the part "Even though Wikipedia is not censored" as it indeed disclaims any censorship is involved at Wikipedia. OTOH the phrase "Wikipedia is not censored" has been written on the Muhammad talk pages probably hundreds of times, so I wonder why anyone would object that phrase to be in a message box on the article. Anyway, the text can be changed.
2. They are fearing a slippery slope. There are certainly more articles where a minority rejects certain images. But I can't see how a new message box with that kind of functionality, would enlarge that problem rather than reduce it. If members of the Bahá'í Faith, creationists, Africans or Serbians object to certain images now, they can already cause trouble by removing them. Why should it be any worse, when there is a possibility to make [[Wikipedia:Options to not see an image]] more flexible?
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