2008/12/23 Andrew Cates Andrew@soschildren.org:
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.