Andrew Garrett wrote:
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Wedrna, later:
The *ONLY* rating and classification system that I can support is a descriptive one. That is, it describes the nature of the content, and allows humans or computers to filter it accordingly. The infrastructure would be technically simple.
Yes. Our categorization system already exists and should suffice.
To be specific, the technical infrastructure would involve parser functions which can apply ICRA tags to images, and can pass them through to the articles in question. It could be implemented with parser functions and the page_props table in an afternoon, taking no more than a week to tweak and review.
If you want this functionality, you should look at implementing it, or you should lobby the Foundation to support it with staff developer time.
Is there really a presumption that after straining at a mouse -- trivial and clearly temporary -- limitations of Jimbo's technical powers, with great gusto and grand drama; the wikimedian community will kneel down and swallow an elephant.
Content labeling is *HUGE*, much much much huger than a temporary and correctible loss of a few files, and a mild rebuke that Jimbo can live down and rise from the ashes again, after a suitable time.
I will also state for the record that content labeling is a bad bad bad idea.
Where on wiki have you set up a page consulting the community on whether we want this humongous change, so that I can go and voice my opposition?
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen