[WikiEN-l] Britannica quote of the day

[geni]

On 3/27/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/27/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You are welcome to develop your own external labelling service. Placeopedia
> > acts as a linkage between Wikipedia and Google: why not set up something of
> > your own for content labelling? Useful information can be found here:
> > http://www.w3.org/PICS/#Developers
>
> Scalability would be the problem. We have a million articles, but a
> large editor pool too. To tag pages, we would need to harness that
> editor pool.
>
> > Hosting this stuff within the Foundations purview would IMNHSO be foolish.
>
> Oh? Why?
>
> > Actually incorporating it into Mediawiki would be suicidal. Imagine the edit
> > wars which could be provoked.
>
> Yeah? We have edit wars about silly stuff now. You really think
> labelling a page "contains images of naked bodies" is so contentious?
>
> Steve

Yes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo%27s_David

Does this one contain naked buttocks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Donatello_david_plaster_replica_right_1000px_wide.jpg

Or what tags would you use on this image:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C31893-101.jpg

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geni