[WikiEN-l] Suggestions for a work-safe encyclopedia

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Zach Alexander wrote:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
> 
>> But wouldn't it be better if we let people choose which types of images
>> they wanted to display? Turning off all images removes all the images in
>> the article, while a content-filtering system would be specific to
>> images deemed offensive by the reader.
> 
> 
> This really is the only long term solution. We add some buttons in 
> Special:Preferences, and have two or three options -- e.g. 
> uncensored/moderate/strict. Explicit content would automatically be 
> filtered from then on, or not.
> 
> It would involve more work coding, and more work maintaining tags on 
> explicit content, and arguments about whether [[Image:Y]] should get 
> tagged as explicit or not, and so on. But there's no other long term 
> solution I can think of, because we do need to have boobs and clitorises 
> in the appropriate places, but people do need to have a way not to see 
> them if they'd rather not. (Making the user disable images doesn't count 
> as a solution.) A fork on the basis of censorship would be unlikely 
> after then.

"Explicit" is majorly POV. However, it would be possible to have NPOV 
labels like "bare female breasts" and "human blood". There's been some 
discussion at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/End-user_image_suppression .