csherlock@ljh.com.au wrote:
I think people are going to have to come to a better solution than this, or the software will need some modification (for instance, flagging images as potentially offensive and giving users a setting to see/not see these images).
Perhaps we could use transclusion? There would be an [[Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse (text only)]] article, which could be transcluded to the [[Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse (with images)]] article. Or vice-versa. [[Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse]] could be used as a dismbig that would ask if you wanted to see the article with photos.
This would keep both articles in sync, and would allow users to decide whether they want to view the images beforehand (for students etc.).
This is also similar to what the [[Main Page]] offers, with its link to [[Main Page (table free)|Text only]]. Except that tables are being omitted in this case, not images.
I really hope that other articles won't take up this, for instance [[clitoris]] might decide to fork over disputes over the image of a women's vagina on the page (I personally think that these people need to just get over it, but I'm not everyone). My concern, however, is how to keep the articles in sync once they have been duplicated.
There are children who use Wikipedia regularly, though. They probably wouldn't have any business reading articles like [[clitoris]], but they might accidentally stumble upon these articles. Keeping a text-only version
Further: it's a slipperyly slope when we start allowing dupes: we have a similar situation where we had [[Zionist revisionism]] and [[Israeli-Palestinian history denial]]. Two seperate articles, yet both talking about very similar things. Perhaps not quite the same, but you can see how messy things get when we allow duplication of articles!
I would draw a distinction between 1) an imageless version of an article and 2) two separate yet very similar *topics*.
Ideally, enough people would be monitoring these articles on their watchlists (that's likely with controversial topics anyhow), so it wouldn't be necessary to have automatic synchronization.
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