Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:02 PM, David Gerard dgerard@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.
You would need to reparse on edit (which changes categories) all pages including the image. Even if the image comes from commons or another ForeignRepo. Not as easy, I think, but this is a long wanted proposal, see bug 8298/9616.