2008/12/23 Andrew Cates <Andrew(a)soschildren.org>rg>:
You have an uphill fight on this. Some of the worse
deletion decisions
the community has made, have been from people claiming "censorship"
and getting massive popular support: I sometimes wonder if a majority
of wikipedia editors are still teenage (literally) rebels.
Yes. And given to robotic determinism in implementation of rules. And
go away after 12-18 months, like people in most other MMORPGs.
There is another lingering proposal which I think
originally came from
Erik Moeller which is to tag content with an off/on switch on
child-safe, "potentially offensive" or similar. This was in response
to a complaint about us removing some gruesome holocaust images from
the Schools wikipedia.
The advantages would be an increased preparedness on the part of
schools to give access. The disadvantage would be a switch which many
people would not bother with and the usual fruitcakes would abuse. We
did look at whether the schools wikipedia and Wikipedia 1.0 could be
converged as projects if such a switch existed.
On balance there were other priorities.
Others have proposed a third party rating specific revs of specific
articles, sort of like how Veropedia does it. Which is basically a
matter of someone bothering who thinks they can do it scalably. But
it's unlikely to fly as something to be done on a WMF site itself.
- d.