[Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

[private musings]

Re : This from brion;

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
>  Sites like Flickr and Google image search keep this to a single toggle;
> the default view is a "safe" search which excludes items which have been
> marked as "adult" in nature, while making it easy to opt out of the
> restricted search and get at everything if you want it.....
>
> .....Ultimately it may be most effective to implement something like this
> (basically an expansion of the "bad image list" implemented long ago for
> requiring a click-through on certain images which were being frequently
> misused in vandalism) in combination with a push to create distinct
> resources which really *are* targeted at kids -- an area in which
> multiple versions targeted to different cultural groups are more likely
> to be accepted than the "one true neutral article" model of Wikipedia.
>
> -- brion
>
>
This is exceptionally heartening from my perspective - I believe a very
simple and straightforward system like this would help a great deal. It is
of course a great strength of wiki-processes to be able to allow large
groups of volunteers to maintain appropriate image descriptive tagging which
could power such a system - I've said before that I'm a little surprised
that it's not embraced as a good way forward - but either ways, it's a good
thing in my book.

I believe this would be a valuable (and necessary) software addition from
the foundation - is it really a fairly simple technical implementation,
brion? others?

cheers,

Peter,
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