[Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue May 11 16:48:35 UTC 2010


On 11 May 2010 17:45, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure, and that's inevitable.  You aren't going to please people who
> have ideological problems with Wikipedia's entire premise.  But
> leaving aside people who think nudity is morally wrong on principle,
> we are still left with a very large number of people who would simply
> prefer not to see it.  Or would at least *sometimes* prefer not to see
> it (at work, when kids are around, etc.).  If these people want to
> look at even totally innocuous articles like [[Human]], they will be
> forced to look at images they don't want to see, with no warning.


You're a developer. Write something for logged-in users to block
images in local or Commons categories they don't want to see. You're
the target market, after all.

(If that isn't enough and you insist it has to be something for
default, then I fear you are unlikely to gain consensus on this.)


- d.



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