On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 17:18, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs.ml@googlemail.com wrote:
On 09/21/2011 03:47 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
- Create en.safe.wikipedia.org […]
Then governments/ISPs/institutions could block unsafe-Wikipedia via DNS blocks. This is, compared to DPI, quite easy. Using en.wikipedia.org/safe/ might resolve this issue.
Governments about which we are talking have methods to filter particular images, not just domain names. But, I am fine with .../safe/ as an option.
The other issue is that those who want to censor actually want to block non-censored access. If so, let's them give that, but not on the main site, so they could actually block en.wikipedia.org if they are so insane. Bottom line is to protect more permissive cultures. If some group really wants to have Wikipedia censored and it's so powerful to push WMF Board to do something beyond reasonable involvement in content issues, sexual education of their children is around the bottom of my concerns.
You're counting on there being too many hashes to go through, which is correct. But there are far fewer images to go through. You'd only have to create a list of all hashes of all 11 million or so images on Commons and compare that list to the list of unsafe images on safe.wikimedia.org. Which is not easy (if you have to download all the files, i.e. if the files themselves are used for hashing, not only the file name), but arguably doable.
So, in effect, I don't think your proposal properly achieves what it tries to accomplish. (Sorry if I misunderstood your proposal)
I am not sure what do you object at the end. If you have better technical idea or have an idea for better design, I am fine with it as long as it doesn't affect the main site.