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 .