Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi!!!!
revolution/pro-alternate lifestyle propoganda
materials
removed from the dumps.
You forgot China and their needs!
Good point. I don;t know where to start on that one, so some suggestions
would be welcome.
Perhaps I should post the filtering code somwhere and let folks who know
better than I
on the china issue create a categories template for filtering China content.
Anyway, I'm somewhat confused. You disagree with
idea that foundation is
more worthy cause to support Wikipedia, than buying filtering hardware.
from much of the topics, or perceived erotic
imagery in many of the
articles. My tools let you filter import XML dumps
Do your filters try to count how much pink is in picture? :)
They use an algorithm developed at U of U that detects pixel ratios of human
skin tone (the ratios are the same no matter what complexion) and tags them
for removal. From what I have seen its only a handful of images (@ 100) in
most of the dumps, and medial articles like "penis" and "vagina" I
think
are
ok. Certain art images are objectionable to folks, along with articles
on words
like F__K, etc. which needs cleaning up.
Anyway, I'm not sure censoring Wikipedia is helping
Wikipedia.
And I'm not sure anyone limiting access to proper wikipedia content is
helping Wikipedia either.
Well, that's also my view as well, I hate censorship, but like it or
not, the conservative
element of the US comprises 98% of the folks who run these organizations
and have
real $$$ to support Wikimedia, and the criticisms I get when I talk to
folks about supporting Wikipedia are:
1). It's in the press due to inaccurate bios
2). It hosts radical left wing content
3). It is used as a lobbying platform by various political groups
Saying we support "filtering" and a "clean" version, whether its
really
clean or not, shuts these people
up and at a minimum provides some level of comfort they can use the
content and have a degree of control
over certain categories of content use.
Were it up to me, I would say "let them eat Wikipedia as is", but its
not up to me, and I have to deploy
Native Translations in areas like the Cherokee Nation which is 99% hard
core Southern Baptist, and
other areas which do not have such an open view.
Jeff
I guess there're more books which contain violence
(say... smiting in
Bible), which should be definitely filtered.
Domas
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