On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
There may be rare web browsers that cannot be told whether or not to download inline images. I don't think writing for those browsers would solve the problem, which as I suggested in my earlier comment is a matter of misconfigured liveware.
This seems like a fine idea. How about we put a link to a help page under controversial images explaining how to turn image rendering off for the site?
I think a lot of people are losing sight of a very real issue. It is offensive to many to have to placate religious views they don't agree with. I don't want to add show/hide tags to images of Muhammad any more than I want to ensure that nothing negative is said about scientology, or that [[Creationism]] is portrayed as a scientifically valid alternative to evolution. I am not Muslim, and I am not a Scientologist, and I am not a Creationist.
I am a Wikipedian. Our values are openness, transparency, and neutrality. I do not want to remove images that are relevant because it upsets some people sensibilities. That is offensive to me, and I think offensive to the larger internet community. We shouldn't rush to placate a group of people that are peripheral to the project, while deeply offending our core editors, and our own values.