[WikiEN-l] Re: Reliable, selectable content

Thu Apr 7 14:57:51 UTC 2005

Tim Starling wrote:

>ICRA labels have the advantage that they will be used by existing
>software, there will be no need to distribute our own filtering software
>to schools or to manage IP-specific content filters on the server side.
>I'm not sure if they're appropriate for Wikipedia, but it's certainly
>something to discuss.
>
If we use the ICRA labels,

1.  I would prefer to use only the objective ones (killings of animals, 
male genitalia, etc.).  The subjective ones (artistic context, 
child-harming) are argument magnets.  I think the ICRA standard allows 
for this.

2.  We would need to label article *versions*.  This means that if an 
anon comes along and edits a page or changes an image, the labels revert 
to non-labelled (no ICRA meta tag) until replaced.  And this is the same 
way our validation/quality labels need to work.  We can't rate the 
quality or label the content of a fluid article.

Tom Haws