[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 10:28:04 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content
>
> However, the editor community could sabotage it in various ways. For
> example, there's no guarantee that anyone will tag any images, or that
> tagged images won't be untagged by bots run by administrators. If the
> Board really does want a useful image-hiding feature, then it's
> essential that the community be persuaded that it is a good idea.
>
> Personally, I think the filter will be mostly harmless, and that it's
> not worth the effort to rail against it. It will be useful for PR --
> it will seem as if we are trying to accomodate all points of view even
> if the feature is not particularly useful for parents.
>
> -- Tim Starling


Because of the dictat nature of the board resolution, I think the key
question omitted  from the questionnaire was:

When (not if) we implement this feature, would you be willing to
participate actively in a fork of Wikipedia?

Not kidding.


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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]



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