On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:15:48AM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
On 26 August 2011 08:55, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com wrote:
Are we truly on a slippery slope with 'informative labelling' with neutral language? Or can this be considered another aspect of curation?
We have a category system. Modulo idiots (the danger of a wiki is that people can edit it), it mostly works.
How neutral can a "block any image in these categories" system be?
In that scenario: On day 1, the system, and categories, will be entirely neutral. However the categories that are blessed (cursed) by the image-hiding system are now potentially non-neutral.
Due to the way wikis work: by day ~365, the categories will very likely be non-neutral in practice. We'll then be in the same situation as if we had started out with non-neutral categories in the first place (verboten).
sincerely, Kim Bruning