On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 07:12:04PM -0400, Risker wrote:
Oh please, Kim; this is nonsense.
Be careful with what you call nonsense. :-)
Commercially available software is, even right now, blocking certain content areas by category and/or keywords for (at minimum) Commons and English Wikipedia;
Yes. These tools also have a category system. That category system is structured very differently from the commons category system.
Just because mediawiki uses a database and wordpress uses a database, it doesn't mean that the two databases are interchangable. That's just silly! (try it and see if you don't believe me)
The same is true for categories (which are just a particular way to structure a database anyway). Just because mediawiki uses categories, and ACME CensorThemAll(tm) uses categories, doesn't mean that they are necessarily interchangable in any way.
I've seen it in operation.
Let me check: Have seen your image filter software actually directly use categories from commons? Are you sure?
So there's no reason to believe that the current category system, which we use legitimately for content-finding, is not amenable to use in exactly the same way that an image-filter-specific category would be.
It would require some amount of remapping before it could be practically used in that manner.
sincerely, Kim Bruning