[Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

[David Goodman]

Assuming an individual wanted filters, all methods such as this
require them to be aware of whatever they consider to be the
disturbing image(s) before deciding to apply the filter.

In those methods which filter on an image by image basis, this
requirement rather defeats the purpose. The only way it is applicable
is when someone else blocks the images first--presumably a parent, who
thus has the need to identify and read every potentially disturbing
page before their child happens upon it.     It is more likely to be
conducive to outsiders providing their prebuilt lists. They have the
right to use what ever we provide, but do we want to provide tools
that decrease actual individual choice and encourage the more
heavy-handed methods of censorship?

This suggestion has one advantage over previous: it goes page by page,
not image by image. In  some cases, this might be realistic, but in
others the user, especially the inexperienced user, will not realize
from the page title what sort of images are likely to be found on it.


On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Tobias Oelgarte
<tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 24.11.2011 15:09, schrieb MZMcBride:
>> Andreas K. wrote:
>>> The way this would work is that each project page would have an "Enable
>>> image filtering" entry in the side bar. Clicking on this would add a "Hide"
>>> button to each image displayed on the page. Clicking on "Hide" would then
>>> grey the image, and automatically add it to the user's personal filter list.
>> I think this sounds pretty good. Is there any indication how German
>> Wikipedians generally view an implementation like this? I can't imagine
>> English Wikipedians caring about an additional sidebar link/opt-in feature
>> like this.
>>
>>> Apart from enabling users to hide images and add them to their PFL as they
>>> encounter them in surfing our projects, users would also be able to edit
>>> the PFL manually, just as it is possible to edit one's watchlist manually.
>>> In this way, they could add any image file or category they want to their
>>> PFL. They could also add filter lists precompiled for them by a third
>>> party. Such lists could be crowdsourced by people interested in filtering,
>>> according to whatever cultural criteria they choose.
>> Some sort of subscription service would work well here, right? Where the
>> list can auto-update from a central list on a regular basis. I think that's
>> roughly how in-browser ad block lists work. Seems like it could work well.
>> Keep who pulls what lists private, though, I suppose.
>>
>>> For unregistered users, their PFL could be stored in a cookie.
>> I'm not sure you'd want to put it in a cookie, but that's an implementation
>> detail.
>>
>> Watchlist editing is generally based on looking at titles. I don't suppose
>> you'd want a gallery of hidden images, but it would make filter-list editing
>> easier, heh.
>>
>> MZMcBride
>>
>>
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> I'm a little bit confused by this approach. On the one side it is good
> to have this information stored privately and personal, on the other
> side we encouraging the development of filter lists and the tagging of
> possibly objectionable articles. The later wouldn't be private at all
> and even worse then tagging single images. In fact it would be some kind
> of additional force to ban images from articles just to keep them in the
> "clean" section.
>
> Overall i see little to now advantage over the previously supposed
> solutions. It is much more complicated, harder to implement, more
> resource intensive and not a very friendly interface for readers.
>
> My proposal would be: Just give it up and find other ways to improve
> Wikipedia and to make it more attractive.
>
> nya~
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