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

[David Goodman]

I agree with David Gerard's suggestion above: this is a solution that
will meet a variety of needs,  and is therefore value-neutral. It can
be applied to more than categories--someone with a moderately slow
connection might wish to disable images in articles above a certain
size, or articles containing many images. Personally, I sometimes
disable image loading in my browser selectively in looking at certain
sites where the images interfere with use of the   material I actually
want.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:48 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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