Milos Rancic wrote:
Between:
1) implementation against the majority will on main project;
2) prolonged discussion about this issue, which would harm community;
3) irrelevant in-house circus
-- I choose the circus.
Those aren't the only options.
And Board needs other options, as pushing censorship
within the Board
is strong enough to allow them to step back.
An alternative proposal (which is *far* simpler and maintains
neutrality) already has the public backing of WMF trustee Samuel
Klein:
"As I noted at some point on the mediawiki discussion page: I'm also
in favor of any implementation being a general image filter. I haven't
seen any other option proposed that sounded like it would work out
socially or philosophically."
"There is only one argument I have heard for a category system: that
it might be technically easier to implement. I don't think this is a
good argument - a bad solution here could be worse than none."
"I would certainly like to see what sort of interest there is in a
general image filter. That is the only version of this feature that I
could imagine myself using. (for a small and annoying phobia.)"
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/en/Categories#g…
or
http://goo.gl/t6ly5
David Levy