[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 04/09/2011 9:24 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> Absolutely. There's a ton of analysis left to do. I'll add that to the 
> list though. :) pb

Let's give the Foundation and the committee who made this survey every 
benefit of the doubt. Let's presume they truly and sincerely thought 
that the idea of this image filter was entirely uncontroversial, and 
that it would have near-universal support once the details are worked 
out. That the survey was so rife with methodological problems that – 
unavoidably – biased any result strongly towards something that looks 
superficially supportive of the feature yet still renders a highly 
mitigated result should signal an immediate "all stop" to forging ahead 
blindly with this idea.

What I'd expect now from the committee/WMF is an acknowledgement that 
the image filter is nowhere near the no-brainer they imagined it to be, 
and a commitment to not do any further work towards implementation until 
a real community discussion has taken place. Further, at least some 
signal that they even allow for the possibility that this may not be a 
workable idea in the first place.

-- Coren / Marc