[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

[MZMcBride]

Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> Niabot has just come up with what I think is a great idea for addressing
> the search problem you mention in your postscript. He's proposed a
> clustered search function. (Anybody remember Vivísimo?)
> 
> This could not just solve the problem of NSFW media popping up unexpectedly
> in media searches in Wikipedias and Commons. It would generally make
> Commons' search function more user-friendly, by grouping search results
> according to categories. So adult media would no longer pop up in the
> middle of unrelated searches, monarch butterflies would be separated from
> other types of monarch, etc.

Interesting. :-)  I encourage everyone to take a look at
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming> and
chime in.

> Beyond wanting to drop the list a note about Niabot's idea, I also just
> meant to ask the question that MZMcBride asked above. What is the status of
> the image filter? Last year, we heard that in January, developers would
> sift through the proposals on the Meta brainstorming pages, and select one
> for implementation. But now it is March, and nothing seems to be happening.
> Where are we on this?

I still don't have an answer to the status question, but I did bang out a
few thoughts on editorial judgment and the Wikimedia community here:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editorial_judgment>.

MZMcBride