On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Alasdair web@ajbpearce.co.uk wrote:
So a big objection is that any "sets" of filters is not so much to the "weak" filtering on wikipedia but that such "sets" would enable other censors to more easily make a form of "strong" censorship of wikipedia where some images were not available (at all) to readers - regardless of whether or not they want to see them?
I am not sure I agree with this concern as a practical matter but I can understand it as a theoretical concern. Has the board or WMF talked about / addressed this issue anywhere in regards to "set" based filter systems?
I don't know if they have, but it should be solvable in this system - something with creating a hash of the image name, and using the original name at some places and the hash at others. The list of images in a filter will have one, the html created when a page is looked at the other. I don't have the details all fleshed out, but it doesn't look too hard to do once one has decided that it's necessary.