[WikiEN-l] offensive pict policy suggestions

Thu May 13 07:00:07 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 

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