Andreas K. wrote:
The way this would work is that each project page
would have an "Enable
image filtering" entry in the side bar. Clicking on this would add a
"Hide"
button to each image displayed on the page. Clicking on "Hide" would then
grey the image, and automatically add it to the user's personal filter list.
I
think this sounds pretty good. Is there any indication how German
Wikipedians generally view an implementation like this? I can't imagine
English Wikipedians caring about an additional sidebar link/opt-in feature
like this.
Apart from enabling users to hide images and add
them to their PFL as they
encounter them in surfing our projects, users would also be able to edit
the PFL manually, just as it is possible to edit one's watchlist manually.
In this way, they could add any image file or category they want to their
PFL. They could also add filter lists precompiled for them by a third
party. Such lists could be crowdsourced by people interested in filtering,
according to whatever cultural criteria they choose.
Some sort of subscription
service would work well here, right? Where the
list can auto-update from a central list on a regular basis. I think that's
roughly how in-browser ad block lists work. Seems like it could work well.
Keep who pulls what lists private, though, I suppose.
For unregistered users, their PFL could be stored
in a cookie.
I'm not sure you'd want to put it in a cookie, but that's
an implementation
detail.
Watchlist editing is generally based on looking at titles. I don't suppose
you'd want a gallery of hidden images, but it would make filter-list editing
easier, heh.
MZMcBride
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I'm a little bit confused by this approach. On the one side it is good
to have this information stored privately and personal, on the other
side we encouraging the development of filter lists and the tagging of
possibly objectionable articles. The later wouldn't be private at all
and even worse then tagging single images. In fact it would be some kind
of additional force to ban images from articles just to keep them in the
"clean" section.
Overall i see little to now advantage over the previously supposed
solutions. It is much more complicated, harder to implement, more
resource intensive and not a very friendly interface for readers.
My proposal would be: Just give it up and find other ways to improve
Wikipedia and to make it more attractive.
nya~