[Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

[Andre Engels]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Oliver Koslowski <o.nee at t-online.de> wrote:

> Am 18.09.2011 13:56, schrieb Andre Engels:
> > On itself the one who tags the image, but we happen to have a system for
> > that in Wikimedia. It is called discussion and trying to reach consent.
> Who
> > decides whether a page is in a category? Who decides whether a page has
> an
> > image? Who decides whether something is decribed on a page? All the same.
>
> Our typical system of categories is designed to make it easier to /find/
> (related) articles or media. Good luck trying that with a system that is
> designed to /hide/ things.


I don't see a difference. I want to show images showing so-and-so, or I do
not want to see them. It's all about saying whether images show so-and-so.


> And this doesn't seem like an awful waste of
> precious time to you? For a feature that is not all that likely to be
> popular on a global scale?
>

It depends. If people want to do it, it is their choice how to use their
volunteering time. If they don't, then bad luck to those using the feature.

I do agree that there are dozens of things in Wikipedia/Wikimedia/Mediawiki
that I'd rather see; I chose the secon-lowest rating in the referendum, and
might well have chosen the lowest had I not expected that to be understood
as "I am against this". I do think there are many better things to do with
our time and other means.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com