Hi everyone, recently, in various forums throughout Wikimedia, there has been much discussion about the appropriateness of certain content on Wikipedia, particularly sexually and medically explicit photos.
There has been some agreement that, rather than participate in self-censorship, this problem could be dealt with at a technical level by allowing downstream users of Wikimedia projects to control for themselves if such content is removed, hidden (linked) or shown by default.
Your technical expertise on how this might be implemented is more than welcome: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:End-user_content_suppression
Cheers, Christiaan
I participated in the recent Wikinews logo vote and although I was generally happy with the outcome I found the process very messy, borderline and open for improvement.
One way in which voting could be improved on Wikimedia projects would be to integrate a proportional preference voting system like STV right into MediaWiki. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
I've had a quick look around and found that there is at least one browser-based STV counting software package out there which is open-source and written in PHP: http://www.demochoice.org/
It would be interesting to see if we could adapt and integrate it into MediaWiki. Does anyone have any technical experience with this software, or know of any other possible options?
Christiaan
See also on the topic : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offensive_content
Ant
Christiaan Briggs a écrit:
Hi everyone, recently, in various forums throughout Wikimedia, there has been much discussion about the appropriateness of certain content on Wikipedia, particularly sexually and medically explicit photos.
There has been some agreement that, rather than participate in self-censorship, this problem could be dealt with at a technical level by allowing downstream users of Wikimedia projects to control for themselves if such content is removed, hidden (linked) or shown by default.
Your technical expertise on how this might be implemented is more than welcome: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:End-user_content_suppression
Cheers, Christiaan
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