[WikiEN-l] offensive images policy

Thu May 13 06:53:54 UTC 2004

Image is offensive to me, should be shown inline : 3

Image is not offensive to me, should be shown inline : 4
	(with one person who probably did not understand the question well)

That makes : 7/44 (perhaps 6/44)

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Image is offensive to me, should be linked to or removed : 14

Image is not offensive to me, should be linked to or removed : 16

Haven't looked at image, should be linked to or removed : 7

That makes : 37/44 (perhaps 38/44), hence 84 %

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It is interesting to note that 7 people voluntarily did NOT want to look
at it. We can suppose that these people would *really* prefer to have 
the choice to click on the picture, than being forced to see it.

I would like to note as well, that afaik, currently, when an image is 
listed on votes for deletion, I think the % required for removal is 80% 
(or something like this ?)

If some people find a picture offensive, and want it not to be displayed 
online, they will have two possibilities
* campaigning for plain deletion (80%)
* campaigning for inline linking (???)

Obviously, ??? can not be a % over 80%. If a number of 95% is required 
to label a picture "offensive", that means

*first that people will rather try to have it plain deleted (not exactly 
the best way to achieve a consensus, and truely potential censorship) 
*second that the decision will be taken in truth by 6% of people (the 
tyranny of the minority)

This seems a very strange way to manage decisions than to have 6% of 
people impose their opinion, and second to favor extrem solutions over a 
more consensual one.

I would think that as soon as there is a question over a picture, we 
roughly decide that more than 80% for removal lead the picture to be 
removed.
If less than 80% but more than 50% have a problem with the picture being 
displayed online, then the image is
* kept in the db
* not directly visible in the article
* visible through a link, either in a gallery or the image page itself
* that a warning message is displayed in the article (general mediawiki 
message for example)
* that the link to the image is made "proeminent", so as not to be 
missed by those interested (bold for example)

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Future :

Additionnaly, I think we could go forward setting a couple of categories 
of potentially offensive pictures, such as
* sex
* violence
* nudity
* ...

When the category system is on, a picture labelled offensive (so, 
between 50% and 80% of opinion) could belong to one of these categories. 
People might choose to display one or several of these categories or not 
in their prefs.

If the filter is OFF for a category : the image is displayed online
If the filter is ON for a category : the image is available through a link