Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-11 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
Call be dumb, but is there a denomination of Islam that is disallowed from looking at images of Muhammed? Bob On 10/11/2011 5:17 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: We need to look at mainstream issues (including Muhammad images). ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-11 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
Zooming out may work for individuals like you, but for folks like me, it's actually a distraction, and I try to see what the tiny picture is, staring at it until it makes sense. Yay for ADHD:-\ Bob On 10/11/2011 8:17 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * David Gerard wrote: Not sure the blurring

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-11 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
Ideally, this would be as transparent as possible, so that should not be an issue if all goes well. Bob On 10/11/2011 8:17 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: I'd wonder how they feel about adding some notice like Seeing this image makes some people feel bad to the image caption for all images that

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
Since no one has explicitly come out and said exactly what the issue is here, I'll ask: *What exactly is harmful about an opt-in filter? *If it's opt-in, then you have the choice to not even enable it if you so choose. You don't have to use it; it'd just be an option in the preferences page or

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
Well we can't have that... lol. Bob On 10/9/2011 2:19 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: You don't get to grind someone's nose into your shit. Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
Calm down. No one is forcing or pushing anything, more like offering. Everything I've read indicates it will be opt-in (though the manner for opting in will be easily accessible upon arrival at Wikipedia). This will probably be something just as transparent to those not using it as is the

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
I'm all for it, too. Bob On 10/9/2011 6:31 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 09:19:40AM -0700, Sue Gardner wrote: The Board is hoping there is a solution that will 1) enable readers to easily hide images they don't want to see, as laid out in the Board's resolution [1], while 2)