Re : This from brion;
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Sites like Flickr and Google image search keep this to a single toggle;
the default view is a "safe" search which excludes items which have been
marked as "adult" in nature, while making it easy to opt out of the
restricted search and get at everything if you want it.....
.....Ultimately it may be most effective to implement something like this
(basically an expansion of the "bad image list" implemented long ago for
requiring a click-through on certain images which were being frequently
misused in vandalism) in combination with a push to create distinct
resources which really *are* targeted at kids -- an area in which
multiple versions targeted to different cultural groups are more likely
to be accepted than the "one true neutral article" model of Wikipedia.
-- brion
This is exceptionally heartening from my perspective - I believe a very
simple and straightforward system like this would help a great deal. It is
of course a great strength of wiki-processes to be able to allow large
groups of volunteers to maintain appropriate image descriptive tagging which
could power such a system - I've said before that I'm a little surprised
that it's not embraced as a good way forward - but either ways, it's a good
thing in my book.
I believe this would be a valuable (and necessary) software addition from
the foundation - is it really a fairly simple technical implementation,
brion? others?
cheers,
Peter,
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