Am 16.09.2011 10:40, schrieb Peter Gervai:
I believe it is a fair assumption that we have voted for developing the feature, so wikipedias who need it can activate and use it, while those who do not want to use it will not request its activation, or will request its deactivation. I see no technical reason not to do that so I see no reason not to do it this way.
Where exactly has such a vote taken place?
Just a few bits about the "Meinungsbild" in the de-WP: Only active authors are allowed to vote since the results of a "Meinungsbild" are binding, unlike the results of ordinary polls ("Umfage").
Of those 14% who did not oppose the filter, I did not really see much actual support for it either. The general tone of the people who did not vote against it was that they don't mind that such a tool should be introduced if there's really demand for it.
The 86% rejection rate means that the feature will not be activated in the de-WP and that the WMF would be in a heap of trouble if they tried to force the second largest project to adopt something that the people who actually shape the project simply do not want. I believe it is also safe to assume that those 86% are not likely to do the dirty work of tagging pictures with categories to support the filter.
Regards, Oliver