I've created a mock-up of an image hiding feature which should solve the problem of pictures which are offensive to some, but not to others:
http://scireview.de/wikipedia/ihide/
It's the Nick Berg page (for the purposes of this demo, the normal image rather than the gory one is shown here).
There could be a special tag like
<imagecontent> This page includes an explicit photograph of a clitoris. </imagecontent>
The software would automatically add the "hide images" link. Obviously the threshold for adding such a warning would be much lower than the threshold for not showing an image for reasons of offensiveness, e.g. 50%-60% instead of 95-100%.
I've deliberately avoided words like "warning" for reasons of NPOV. Now, before you suggest that we switch to a full-fledged rating system, this proposal can be implemented fairly quickly, while a rating system cannot.
Regards,
Erik
Erik Moeller wrote:
I've created a mock-up of an image hiding feature which should solve the problem of pictures which are offensive to some, but not to others: http://scireview.de/wikipedia/ihide/
It seems to work only with JavaScript. Personally I think we should have a ?disableimages=1 option instead which is more likely to work everywhere.
Timwi