On 7/22/10 1:56 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David Gerarddgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This is a perennial proposal. It's an idea I like, as it puts control in the hands of the viewer rather than third parties. All it requires is someone to code something that passes muster as being unlikely to melt the servers.
cc to wikitech-l - how feasible is something that allows users to stop display of arbitrary image categories and/or subcategories?
It's entirely feasible. I even have an outline written up:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Simetrical/Censorship
Maybe if I have time left after category sorting this summer, Wikimedia could have me do this.
Interesting proposal. I think it's on the right track.
Pushing censorship to the browser means that we have to reimplement it where ever our content is viewed -- including mobile sites and other alternative ways of browsing Wikipedia and sister sites. But that seems like it's doable, particularly since you're exploiting CSS classes.
Blurring seems a bit deluxe to me -- it's probably adequate to just block the image and show something in its place with the same dimensions. (At Flickr, they use an image of greyish-black static for this).
But I think any proposal that works is going to look like yours, given the realities of how Wikimedia content is hosted.