On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Andreas K. <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The proposal is currently being discussed here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Wikipedia-Fork#.22Der_Fil…
So far, several editors who were rigorously opposed to the category-based
filter idea have said that they would see no reason to oppose personal
filter lists. (One editor mentioned disturbing images in the German
meningitis article
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningitis as an example in
the discussion.) About the same number have said that they would still be
opposed on principle.It's early days though; at the time of writing, fewer
than ten editors have commented.
There is some German user involvement and also some German-language
discussion on Meta, with a similar pattern (and also some questions that
only the board and programmers can answer):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming#Page-spe…
Dirk Franke, a well-known German Wikipedian and member of the German
Wikimedia board (Benutzer:Southpark), posted an entry on his blog, saying
that in his opinion this could indeed form the basis of a constructive
discussion about the image filter:
There have also been heated discussions about Sue's visit, the board, the
appropriateness of image filtering, image use, a simple images on/off
option etc. on the Kurier talk page:
– again, some comments saying personal filter lists
would be okay, others
countering that any softening of the resistance against any kind of image
filter would be a sell-out.
I think the fundamental error in this reasoning is that you seem to under the
impression that this is something new here that is considered, and that there
have only been a few people commenting on these different schemes. The
brutal fact is that during the seven or eight years this issue has reared its
ugly head, thousands of people have opined on this issue, and a vast
majority have a big opposition to any scheme, because it is at base
against our core mission. Jimbo personally blocked a few of the people
who suggested anything of the sort (Uwe Kils might have been the first,
though there might have been somebody before I joined the project).
Using phrases like "some people", "a few people" is a pathetic
representation
of the reality. It isn't a minority you want to address/oppose, but a huge and
strong entrenched core group. Pretending otherwise is just pure madness.
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