On 15 June 2012 13:15, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelgarte@googlemail.com wrote:
I argued at some time that if there was a strong need for such a filter that there would already services in place that would filter the content or images. So far i have seen some very week approaches using the Google APIs, but no real filter lists. Judging from your approach to filter out Giant isopods, we see that there is no general rule what should be filtered. Some dislike X, others Y and the next one likes X and Y but not Z. Overall this results in the wish to have as many suitable filters as possible, which at the same time results in massive tagging work.
I don't recall seeing any, but did anyone actually explain why the market had not provided a filtering solution for Wikipedia, if there's actually a demand for one?
(IIRC the various netnannies for workplaces don't filter Wikipedia, or do so only by keyword, i.e. [[Scunthorpe problem]]-susceptible, methods.)
I ask because of recent statements by board members that the filter is alive and well, and not at all dead.
- d.