I agree with David Gerard's suggestion above: this is a solution that
will meet a variety of needs, and is therefore value-neutral. It can
be applied to more than categories--someone with a moderately slow
connection might wish to disable images in articles above a certain
size, or articles containing many images. Personally, I sometimes
disable image loading in my browser selectively in looking at certain
sites where the images interfere with use of the material I actually
want.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:48 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 May 2010 17:45, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sure, and that's inevitable. You aren't
going to please people who
have ideological problems with Wikipedia's entire premise. But
leaving aside people who think nudity is morally wrong on principle,
we are still left with a very large number of people who would simply
prefer not to see it. Or would at least *sometimes* prefer not to see
it (at work, when kids are around, etc.). If these people want to
look at even totally innocuous articles like [[Human]], they will be
forced to look at images they don't want to see, with no warning.
You're a developer. Write something for logged-in users to block
images in local or Commons categories they don't want to see. You're
the target market, after all.
(If that isn't enough and you insist it has to be something for
default, then I fear you are unlikely to gain consensus on this.)
- d.
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