[WikiEN-l] Nude Kate Winslet Picture

Fri Apr 15 04:25:29 UTC 2005

On 4/14/05, Zach Alexander <zdalexander at gmail.com> wrote:
> Faraaz Damji wrote:
> 
> > No, Wikipedia will never be completely safeguarded, just like it will
> > never be completely finished.  But if we use a keyword system (either
> > instead of or complementary to a rating scheme), then images can have
> > metadata that users can filter out.  So if people are offended by
> > images
> > of women's face, then they can block "girls, women, etc."
> >
> > The best thing about this is that it won't interfere with normal users,
> > since people will have to opt IN to it.
> 
> Exactly, this is the way to go. I just wrote pretty much the same thing
> in another email.

I don't think there's anything wrong with allowing arbitrary tagging. 
There may be something wrong with any particular filtering system, and
I'm not sure we should support any one in particular.   Offering
people the ability to edit metadata tags, without making some Official
Policy concerning how they will be used, would be a useful addition to
the wiki-toolbox.

These tags/keywords could be optionally shown at the top of each page
and at the bottom of each image,  for editors who wanted to see it...
or just shown in a separate section linked to at the bottom of each
article/image page.

SJ

ps - there was a similar outcry about the possible introduction of
Categories; with some people insisting that since there was no One
Good Way to categorize things, cats would just be a mess, would be
pov, etc.