[Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

[Thomas Dalton]

On 21 September 2011 14:06, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> You didn't understand me well. It's not about fork(s), it's about
> wrappers, shells around the existing projects.
>
> * en.safe.wikipedia.org/wiki/<whatever> would point to
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<whatever>
> * When you click on "edit" from en.safe, you would get the same text
> as on en.wp.
> * When you click on "save" from en.safe, you would save the text on
> en.wp, as well.
> * The only difference is that images in wikitext won't be shown like
> [[File:<something sensible>.jpg]], but as
> [[File:fd37dae713526ee2da82f5a6cf6431de.jpg]].
> * safe.wikimedia.org won't be Commons fork, but area for image
> categorization to those who want to work on it. It is not the job of
> Commons community to work on personal wishes of American
> right-wingers.
>
> (Note: "safe" is not good option for name, as it has four characters
> and it could be used for language editions of Wikipedia; maybe
> safe.en.wikipedia.org could be better option.)

What is the advantage of that compared with the feature as it was
originally proposed? All you've done is made the URL more complicated.
You'll still need to use user preferences to determine which images
are getting hidden, so why can't you just have an "on/off" user
preference as well rather than determining whether the filter should
be on or off based on the URL?