[WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently classroom-safe

Sat Feb 19 23:56:48 UTC 2005

Bummer, thought it sounded too easy.

But following this theme, as long as we get down to the task of tagging  
images then targeted filtering, whether it be site-based or browser  
based, is always going to be an option. One day web browsers may well  
support some kind of image/content filter system, in which case all  
we'd need to do is hook our tagging system into it, at which point we  
could dispense with a site-based preference option.

Christiaan

On 19 Feb 2005, at 11:38 pm, Tony Sidaway wrote:

> Christiaan Briggs said:
>>
>> So, if this person is correct, I owe you an apology. Browser-based
>> content filtering may well be the way to go.
>>
> PICS?  This was discussed on en-wikipedia in December.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: 
> Graphic_and_potentially_disturbing_images#Proposition_A
> As developer David Monniaux said on December 3:
>
> "A tagging scheme such as PICS, while standard, does not specify a
> taxonomy of ratings: that is, it specifies how the server tells the  
> client
> that such or such content may be categorized as X, but does not  
> specify a
> list of categories or guidelines according to which content should be
> classified. Presumably, to be of any interest to real end-users, the
> system would have to implement categories understood by major end-user
> software. Who determines these categories? Are there standards for  
> them?
> Do they reflect the point of view of certain groups? Etc."
> So PICS itself is just a mechanism.  You have to use PICS alongside  
> some
> end-user taxonomy (content classification system) that is recognisable  
> by
> some popular net nanny software, and ask the user to download and  
> program
> the net nanny software.
> All sounds a bit complex for people who, I'm repeatedly told, can't  
> even
> be bothered to learn how to turn image downloads on and off.