On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Dirk Franke > <[email protected]> wrote: > > And people who talked privately about a fork for some time, start to > think > > and say it loud. > > Thanks for the update, Dirk. I think it's good that people are > seriously discussing what it would mean to fork and how it would be > done. Forking the project if WMF policies or decisions are considered > unacceptable is one of the fundamental ways in which Wikimedia > projects are different from most of the web; it's a key freedom, one > which should be exercised judiciously but which should be preserved > and protected nonetheless. > > With that said, I also think it's important to remember that Sue has > explicitly affirmed that the development of any technical solution > would be done in partnership with the community, including people > who've expressed strong opposition to what's been discussed to date. > [1] > > The vote in German Wikipedia, and most of the discussions to date, > have focused on the specific ideas and mock-ups that were presented as > part of the referendum. But as Sue has made clear, those ideas and > mock-ups are just that, and the Board resolution creates room for > different ideas as well, ranging from the simple (disabling/blurring > all images) to the complex (like a category-based filtering system). > > Some of these ideas are explored here: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum/Next_steps/en#Potential_models_for_hiding_images > > Is there a similar brainstorming page on dewiki already? If not, would > you be interested in organizing some community discussion on whether > there are solutions within the scope of the resolution that the dewiki > community would find acceptable, or whether the prevailing view is > that the resolution itself should be scrapped altogether? > Erik, There was a little bit of brainstorming around this at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier#thumb.2Fhidden That idea was added to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming#thumb.2Fhidden Neitram has since come up with another proposal that's at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Controversial_content/Brainstorming#Simple_personal_category-based_filtering Andreas > Thanks, > Erik > > [1] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-October/069472.html > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
