[WikiEN-l] Offensive photos policy

Thu May 13 14:51:00 UTC 2004

Jimmy-

> If someone says "Gee, I'd like to be able to read an article about the
> Nick Berg situation without having to look at the actual picture
> unless I choose to do so" then responding with: "Fine, you may turn
> off every single image in Wikipedia"

??? That's not the proposal. I think you misunderstood what has been  
discussed. See
http://scireview.de/wikipedia/ihide/ (tested in Mozilla).

You would have a link to dynamically hide images *on that particular  
page*. To prevent people from viewing the image before they choose to hide  
it, the offensive image would be moved out of immediate view, perhaps to  
the bottom of the page. (It would be required by policy that adding such  
images is only allowed when the page is long enough to do that.)

There would be a user preference to hide images on such pages (those with  
a <warning> tag) by default to avoid all risk of stumbling across one by  
accident. That should not be the default, however, because then we would  
implicitly endorse the majority POV -- instead we endorse no POV, make  
only neutral statements about the offensiveness of images, and offer  
people the choice to tell the server "Please endorse my POV on this  
image", by clicking the hide link.

Last but not least, when there is clear consensus on the matter, images  
could still be moved to a separate page.

Regards,

Erik