Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status - the image filter disguised under a new label

2012-03-13 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 13.03.2012 03:39, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: It's not me who's uploading hundreds of pornographic media onto Wikimedia sites. There are places for porn online, just like there are places for online poker, and amateur digital art. I have no problem with any of them. But listen to yourself – you

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status - the image filter disguised under a new label

2012-03-13 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 13.03.2012 10:39, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 13.03.2012 03:39, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: No. I'm not accusing you for prudery, but for making wrong cited statements. Your assumption is that we have

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status - the image filter disguised under a new label

2012-03-12 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
I'm tired to reply to this kind of comments since I said anything important multiple times already. So I will keep it as that and only write the following: Sorry, but your comments are total bullshit¹ and you know it. ¹ includes strong language, overly repeated selective examples, bending

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2012-03-12 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 12.03.2012 23:14, schrieb Andrew Gray: On 11 March 2012 00:23, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2012 22:15, Andrew Grayandrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: The image filter may not be a good solution, but too much of the response involves saying we're fine, we're neutral, we

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2012-03-09 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 09.03.2012 15:34, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: The question you have to ask yourself, where is the value in Commons when we do not optimise it as much as possible so that it will be the repository of choice of freely licensed imagery. Thanks, GerardM That's right. But why did the current

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2012-03-09 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 09.03.2012 18:15, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Neil Babbagen...@thebabbages.com wrote: If you ran a charity store committed to providing educational products free to all who needed them you wouldn't get many children as customers if you put hardcore sex products

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-07 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 07.03.2012 23:41, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: Juliana, You simply don't understand where I am coming from. I have nothing against Wikimedia websites hosting adult content, just like I have nothing against the far greater amounts of explicit adult material on Flickr for example. What saddens me

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-07 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 08.03.2012 01:53, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 07.03.2012 23:41, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: Sorry to interrupt you. But as i can see, you constantly rage against sexuality in any form. I came to this little

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

2012-03-05 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 05.03.2012 19:21, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: I agree you're damned if you do, damned if you don't, and you have my sympathy. However, I would like you to consider what our users get when they do a Multimedia search for male human in Wikipedia:

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-02 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 01.12.2011 10:53, schrieb John Vandenberg: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: ... The downstream use objection was *never* about downstream use of _content_ but downstream use of _labels_ and the structuring of the semantic data. That is a

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-12-02 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 01.12.2011 20:06, schrieb Tom Morris: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 09:11, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: This is not a theoretical risk. This has happened. Most famously in the case of Virgin using pictures of persons that were licenced under a free licence, in their

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.11.2011 10:32, schrieb Tom Morris: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 08:09, Möller, Carstenc.moel...@wmco.de wrote: No, we need to harden the wall agaist all attacks by hammers, screwdrivers and drills. We have consensus: Wikipedia should not be censored. You hold strong on that principle.

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
and still be useful - except for one that gives users the option to hide all images by default and then click on the greyed out images to load them if they want to see them. -- Alasdair (User:ajbpearce) On Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 11:37, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: Am 29.11.2011 10:32

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.11.2011 12:09, schrieb Andre Engels: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: If the filter is predefined then it might meet the personal preference and can be easy to use. But it will be an violation of NPOV, since someone else (a group

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.11.2011 13:03, schrieb MZMcBride: Alasdair wrote: If the feeling is that such a weak filter would (regardless of how the pre-populated filter lists are created) still attract significant opposition on many projects then I personally don't see how there can be any filter created that is

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.11.2011 13:45, schrieb David Gerard: On 29 November 2011 12:03, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: What i found to be the best solution so far was the blurred images filter. You can 'opt-in' to enable it and all images will be blurred as the default. Since

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.11.2011 14:28, schrieb Alasdair: On Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 13:42, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: With the tiny (actually big) problem that such lists are public and can be directly feed into the filters of not so people loving or extremely caring ISP's. I think this is a point that I

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.11.2011 14:40, schrieb Andre Engels: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: The problem starts at the point where the user does not choose the image(s) for himself and uses a predefined set on what should no be shown. Someone will have

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.11.2011 14:48, schrieb Andre Engels: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: I neither agree. We decide what belongs to which preset (or who will do it?), and it is meant to filter out controversial content. Therefore we define what

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.11.2011 23:47, schrieb Kim Bruning: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:09:04AM +0100, M?ller, Carsten wrote: ... but -if we want to reach consensus[1]- what we really need to be discussing is: screwdrivers. sincerely, Kim Bruning No, we need to harden the wall agaist all attacks by

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 videos - mission complete!

2011-11-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 30.11.2011 00:04, schrieb Kim Bruning: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 01:48:24PM +0200, Itzik Edri wrote: Hi, *I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 2011 in Haifa are now available on our channel in YouTube!: http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL .* *

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-26 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
? nya~ Am 26.11.2011 15:41, schrieb Tom Morris: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 14:59, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm a little bit confused by this approach. On the one side it is good to have this information stored privately and personal, on the other side we encouraging

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

2011-11-24 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 24.11.2011 15:09, schrieb MZMcBride: Andreas K. wrote: The way this would work is that each project page would have an Enable image filtering entry in the side bar. Clicking on this would add a Hide button to each image displayed on the page. Clicking on Hide would then grey the image, and

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

2011-10-30 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
That shouldn't be the issue. The question is the effect. What would make you more pleased, a standard message/template that you did good, or a personal message from someone from who you know yourself that he watched over your work? Personally, I doubt that a simple template machine could lead

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 08:30, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 22:56 +0100, David Gerard wrote: And, in detail, why is a hide/show all solution inadequate? What is the use case this does not serve? Are you even trying to pretend to be serious? Use case: me reading an article. It is my

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 08:49, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 23:35 +0200, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: Why? Because it is against the basic rules of the project. It is intended to discriminate content. To judge about it and to represent you No, it is intended to let people discriminate

Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 15:46, schrieb WereSpielChequers: -- Message: 3 Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:57:51 +0200 From: Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 17:19, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: On Sun, 2011-10-23 at 10:31 +0200, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: Am 23.10.2011 08:49, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 23:35 +0200, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: Why? Because it is against the basic rules of the project. It is intended

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 17:24, schrieb Andrew Garrett: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: A neutral all-or-nothing image filter would not have such side effects (and would also neatly help low bandwidth usage). It would also make the project useless. I don't want to

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 19:32, schrieb Ilario Valdelli: On 23.10.2011 19:05, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: The German poll made clear, that not any category based filter will be allowed, since category based filtering is unavoidably non-neutral and a censorship tool. Who the hell are you to forbid me or allow

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
If something is useful or not, shouldn't be the question. Alt least the WMF seams to see it that way, because it is very doubtful that the image filter is useful for the project, for its goals, growth and development. I would invite the Board to view the movie Schoolbreak Special: The Day They

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.10.2011 22:16, schrieb David Gerard: Unless nuances of the translation are inaccurate - is this the case? Do you see wiggle room in the original German phrasing? There is no room for interpretation. It clearly says that no category based filtering of any illustrative media will be

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.10.2011 22:21, schrieb Erik Moeller: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:16 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: This would appear to indicate the opposition is to *any* personal image filter per the Board resolution, and the category-based proposal additionally as an example of such rather

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.10.2011 22:31, schrieb Erik Moeller: What am I proposing, Jussi-Ville? So far, the only material proposal I've made as part of this debate is here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/069077.html And, I don't think you're being accurate, historically or

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.10.2011 23:23, schrieb Nikola Smolenski: On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 21:16 +0100, David Gerard wrote: Both the opinion poll itself and its proposal were accepted. In contrary to the decision of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, personal image filters should not be introduced

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.10.2011 23:44, schrieb Erik Moeller: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: No one said it would be evil. But since we already have working solutions for this projects, why do we need another, now global, solution, based on categories

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 00:13, schrieb Erik Moeller: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: What approaches do you have in mind, that would empower the editors and the readers, aside from an hide/show all solution? 1) Add a collapsible [*] parameter

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 01:57, schrieb Billinghurst: On 22 Oct 2011 at 15:36, Erik Moeller wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:56 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 October 2011 22:51, Tobias Oelgarte And, in detail, why is a hide/show all solution inadequate? What is the use case this does

Re: [Foundation-l] category free image filtering

2011-10-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.10.2011 01:49, schrieb WereSpielChequers: Hi Tobias, Do youhave any problems with this category free proposal http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/filter WereSpelChequers The idea isn't bad. But it is based on the premise that there are enough users of the filter to

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

2011-10-20 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 19.10.2011 23:19, schrieb Philippe Beaudette: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: I ask Sue and Philippe again: WHERE ARE THE PROMISED RESULTS - BY PROJECT?! First, there's a bit of a framing difference here. We did not initially

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

2011-10-19 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 19.10.2011 11:07, schrieb Andrew Garrett: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but that is not proof of what we as a community understand the principle to mean, it means the board is on crack. That's not a helpful contribution to this

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

2011-10-18 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 18.10.2011 09:57, schrieb Tom Morris: On Tuesday, October 18, 2011, Thomas Morton wrote: On 17 Oct 2011, at 09:19, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.comjavascript:; wrote: I have no problem with any kind of controversial content. Showing progress of fisting on the mainpage

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

2011-10-18 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 18.10.2011 14:00, schrieb Thomas Morton: On 18 October 2011 11:56, Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.comwrote: That controversial content is hidden or that we provide a button to hide controversial content is prejudicial. I disagree on this, though. There is a balance between

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

2011-10-18 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 18.10.2011 17:23, schrieb Thomas Morton: That comes down to the two layers of judgment involved in this proposal. At first we give them the option to view anything and we give them the option to view not anything. The problem is that we have to define what not anything is. This imposes our

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

2011-10-18 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 18.10.2011 19:04, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: From: Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com Am 18.10.2011 11:43, schrieb Thomas Morton: It is this fallacious logic that underpins our crazy politics of neutrality which we attempt to enforce on people (when in practice we lack neutrality

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

2011-10-18 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 18.10.2011 23:20, schrieb Andreas K.: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: You said that we should learn from Google and other top websites, but at the same time you want to introduce objective criteria, which neither of this websites did

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

2011-10-17 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 16.10.2011 21:27, schrieb ???: On 16/10/2011 19:36, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: Am 16.10.2011 16:17, schrieb ???: On 16/10/2011 14:50, David Gerard wrote: On 16 October 2011 14:40, ???wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: Don't be an arsehole you get the same sort of stuff if you search

[Foundation-l] Controversial Content vs Only-Image-Filter

2011-10-16 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
In the last weeks i hold myself back and watched over the comments at multiple places to see what is the current development. At first i have to point out that I'm very disappointed by the current progress. Sue called for a more general discussion. Ting stated again, like in Nürnberg, that it

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

2011-10-16 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 16.10.2011 12:53, schrieb ???: On 11/10/2011 15:33, Kim Bruning wrote: flame on Therefore you cannot claim that I am stating nonsense. The inverse is true: you do not possess the information to support your position, as you now admit. In future, before you set out to make claims

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

2011-10-16 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 16.10.2011 16:17, schrieb ???: On 16/10/2011 14:50, David Gerard wrote: On 16 October 2011 14:40, ???wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: Don't be an arsehole you get the same sort of stuff if you search for Presumably this is the sort of quality of discourse Sue was complaining about

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

2011-10-11 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 11.10.2011 17:42, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: From: Faef...@wikimedia.org.uk We could also just delete them, unless someone actually uses them in a sensible way in an article. :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning Not on Commons; being objectionable to some viewers and not being currently in

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

2011-10-09 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
on and that we should stay patient. How many weeks ago this request was made? I did not count anymore... Seriously pissed off greetings from Tobias Oelgarte / user:niabot Am 09.10.2011 16:12, schrieb Ting Chen: Hello Tobias, the text of the May resolution to this question is ... and that the feature

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 05.10.2011 10:46, schrieb Ray Saintonge: On 10/04/11 6:03 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote: The question is that the server are in USA, but for the penal law it's sufficient to edit from the Italian country. I am in a special situation because I live in Switzerland and I publish in USA servers,

Re: [Foundation-l] We need more information (was: Blog from Sue about ...)

2011-09-30 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 30.09.2011 17:06, schrieb Bishakha Datta: ... **I am also dismayed at the use of the word 'censorship' in the context of a software feature that does not ban or block any images. But somehow there doesn't seem to be any other paradigm or language to turn to, and this is what is used as

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 30.09.2011 17:49, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: --- On Fri, 30/9/11, Ryan Kaldarirkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: From: Ryan Kaldarirkald...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date:

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
I would prefer to read these comments in context and not in snippets. Can you point me to the corresponding discussion(s)? -- Niabot Am 30.09.2011 19:02, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: Tobias, you be the judge whether I misunderstood my fellow Wikipedians' comments. Here are some verbatim quotes,

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.09.2011 17:00, schrieb Nathan: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: The complete absence of mentioning the de:wp poll that was 85% against any imposed filter is just *weird*. Not mentioning it, and not acknowledging why someone would do that, doesn't

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 24.09.2011 23:40, schrieb : On 23/09/2011 17:46, Kim Bruning wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:43:14AM +1000, Stephen Bain wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Kim Bruningk...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: The survey was not a poll or referendum, and did not address the fundamental

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 25.09.2011 00:15, schrieb : On 24/09/2011 22:46, David Gerard wrote: On 24 September 2011 22:40, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: The last I heard the German people, as expressed through their lawmakers, DO NOT want their kids looking at porn or images that are excessively

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 25.09.2011 00:43, schrieb David Gerard: On 24 September 2011 23:00, Phil Nashphn...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: The IWF just did not understand how access to Wikipedia works; a strange situation, given their mission. And it wasn't helped by their publicity at the time, IIRC. Fortunately, they

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-24 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 25.09.2011 01:10, schrieb Jussi-Ville Heiskanen: On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Phil Nashphn...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: wrote: On 24/09/2011 22:46, David Gerard wrote: On 24 September 2011 22:40, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.ukwrote: The last I heard the German people, as

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Yes we are aware of such pages. Just search for google safe version and so on. At first you will find plugins from Google for browsers itself, that can be used to enable the filter as an default option. If you scroll down a bit, then you will find other pages that are using Google to perform

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.09.2011 10:27, schrieb Fae: How odd, checking Tobias' list, I tried http://www.safesearchkids.com/wikipedia-for-kids.html to look for penis and it recommended [[File:Male erect penis.jpg]] as the second match. I was expecting it to restrict me to the more rounded and educational

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
I gave you a simple example on how easy it would be to use our categorization to implement a filter based upon those categories. The sources on that this actually happens are not rare if we look at china or Iran. The problem are many local providers over which you will seldom find a report.

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.09.2011 14:03, schrieb m...@marcusbuck.org: After some thinking I come to the conclusion that this whole discussion is a social phenomenon. You probably know how some topics when mentioned in newspaper articles or blogs spur wild arguments in the comments sections. When the article

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Please don't do the rhetorical trick that a mass of users would support some point of view without actual proof. (You've just posted what many of us think and feel.) The chat was of course dominated by the word German. It's the one and only poll that states the opposite to the view of the

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
You may need to add additional points: 5. A country or ISP does not unblock Wikipedia because he doesn't think that it's a usable alternative for a full block, even if he could filter the images based on the filter. (It already works, why step down...) 6. A country or ISP that only hides

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2011-09-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
intern for Einstürzende Neubauten. So don't think I don't love my Germans ;-) (and Bayern Munich is my favorite team!) On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: Please don't do the rhetorical trick that a mass of users would support some point

Re: [Foundation-l] Larry Sanger tweets about 13 yo in Wikiproject Pornography

2011-09-23 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.09.2011 19:26, schrieb Kim Bruning: Dear Press: a self-described 13 YO joined Wikiproject Pornography. Wikipedians support him. webcitation.org/61v0ykxJe webcitation.org/61v1FfW3K - http://twitter.com/#!/lsanger/status/117299089439334400 The on-wiki argument is that there are

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.09.2011 05:15, schrieb Bjoern Hoehrmann: * David Gerard wrote: 233 would be a *large* turnout on en:wp. What is a large turnout on de:wp? Most Meinungsbilder have between 100 and 300 editors participating and the 300s are seen regularily. Participation maxes out at around 500 so large

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.09.2011 08:07, schrieb Kanzlei: Am 21.09.2011 um 22:37 schrieb David Gerarddger...@gmail.com: On 21 September 2011 21:20, Kanzleikanz...@f-t-hofmann.de wrote: This poll was not representative for wikipedia readers, but only for some German wikipedia editors. Scientifically research

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.09.2011 23:55, schrieb Andrew Gray: On 21 September 2011 14:14, Jussi-Ville Heiskanencimonav...@gmail.com wrote: The real problem here is that if there was a real market for stupid sites like that, they would already be there. And they are not, which does seem to point to the

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.09.2011 23:49, schrieb Andrew Gray: On 21 September 2011 18:20, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: Truthfully, i see not different approach to include images and text passages. Both are added, discussed, removed, re-added the same way as text is. Now i heard some

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 23.09.2011 01:21, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: And where would the problem be? If a user prefers to go to a Bowdlerised site like that, rather than wikipedia.org, where they will see the pictures unless they specifically ask not to see them, then that is their choice, and no skin off our

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 16:43, schrieb Milos Rancic: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 15:16, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 September 2011 14:14, Jussi-Ville Heiskanencimonav...@gmail.com wrote: The real problem here is that if there was a real market for stupid sites like that, they would

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 16:53, schrieb phoebe ayers: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:10 PM, phoebe ayersphoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: This seems like an over-hasty statement. There are many possible categorization schemes

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 17:21, schrieb Jussi-Ville Heiskanen: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:53 PM, phoebe ayersphoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:10 PM, phoebe ayersphoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: This

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 17:37, schrieb WereSpielChequers: I get the idea that there are theoretical reasons why image filters can't work, and I share the view that the proposal which was consulted on needs some improvement. An individual choice made at the IP level was a circle that looked awfully

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 18:31, schrieb Kanzlei: Am 21.09.2011 um 17:36 schrieb Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com: It's your basic philosophy that sucks. It's _not_ the choice of the reader to hide image he don't like. It's the choice of the reader to hide image that others don't like! Now

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 18:41, schrieb Andrew Gray: On 21 September 2011 16:53, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: They do it by crowdsourcing a mass American bias, don't they? An American POV being enforced strikes me as a problematic solution. (I know that FAQ says global community. What they

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 18:45, schrieb Milos Rancic: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 18:00, David Levylifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote: Some people won't be content until Wikipedia's prose conveys their cultural/religious/spiritual beliefs as absolute truth. Should the WMF provide en.[insert belief

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 18:56, schrieb Michael Snow: On 9/21/2011 7:53 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:10 PM, phoebe ayersphoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: This seems like an over-hasty statement.

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 19:10, schrieb Thomas Dalton: On 21 September 2011 14:06, Milos Rancicmill...@gmail.com wrote: You didn't understand me well. It's not about fork(s), it's about wrappers, shells around the existing projects. * en.safe.wikipedia.org/wiki/whatever would point to

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 19:36, schrieb Kanzlei: Am 21.09.2011 um 19:04 schrieb Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com: Don't you think that we would have thousands of complaints a day if your words would be true at all? Just have a look at the article [[hentai]] and look at the illustration.

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 19:37, schrieb Milos Rancic: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:10, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: What is the advantage of that compared with the feature as it was originally proposed? All you've done is made the URL more complicated. You'll still need to use user

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 20:05, schrieb Andre Engels: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: I still can't the a rational difference between images included in articles by the will of the community and text passages included by the will of the community

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 21:02, schrieb Milos Rancic: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 20:47, David Levylifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote: Milos Rancic wrote: Don't worry! Any implementation of censorship project would lead to endless troll-fests which would be more dumb than Youtube comments. The point is just to

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 21:28, schrieb Sue Gardner: On 21 September 2011 11:10, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 21.09.2011 19:36, schrieb Kanzlei: Am 21.09.2011 um 19:04 schrieb Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com: Don't you think that we would have thousands

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 22:20, schrieb Kanzlei: Am 21.09.2011 um 20:10 schrieb Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com: Am 21.09.2011 19:36, schrieb Kanzlei: Am 21.09.2011 um 19:04 schrieb Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com: Don't you think that we would have thousands of

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 22:37, schrieb David Gerard: On 21 September 2011 21:20, Kanzleikanz...@f-t-hofmann.de wrote: This poll was not representative for wikipedia readers, but only for some German wikipedia editors. Scientifically research found that Germa editors are not representative for

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 21:52, schrieb Sue Gardner: On 21 September 2011 12:37, Bjoern Hoehrmannderhoe...@gmx.net wrote: * Sue Gardner wrote: Yes we put the vulva on the main page and it got quite some attention. We wanted it this way to test out the reaction of the readers and to start a discussion

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 21.09.2011 23:53, schrieb Bjoern Hoehrmann: * Sue Gardner wrote: Does it mean basically this: deWP put the Vulva article on its front page, and then held a poll to decide whether to i) stop putting articles like Vulva on its front page, because they might surprise or shock some readers, or

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.09.2011 00:07, schrieb Andrew Gray: On 21 September 2011 18:04, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: One of the problems with the discussions about the image filter is that many of them argue - I paraphrase - that Wikipedia must not be censored because it would stop

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.09.2011 00:20, schrieb Robert Rohde: On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:00 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: The board resolution specifies a magical flying unicorn pony that shits rainbows. A wide-ranging survey has been conducted on the precise flight patterns and the importance of

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 22.09.2011 00:42, schrieb Bjoern Hoehrmann: * Tobias Oelgarte wrote: The poll asked whether there should be formalized restrictions beyond the existing ones (only good articles can be proposed). Voters decided against that and to keep the status quo instead where it is decided on a case

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-19 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Many contributers to the poll mentioned that the categorization by sensitivities is already a big problem in itself. At first, as you mentioned, it can be misused. Either by third parties which could use it for aggressive filtering (completely hidden/cot out images) or directly at the Wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-19 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 19.09.2011 15:33, schrieb m...@marcusbuck.org: Zitat von Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com: The second problem will be the categorization progress. We would categorize the images for others, not our selfs, and we also have no sources for argumentation. But there is another

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-19 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 19.09.2011 18:08, schrieb Stephen Bain: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: We discussed this already and came to the conclusion, that you would need hundreds of these categories to filter out most of the objectionable content. And once

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-18 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 18.09.2011 09:46, schrieb Andre Engels: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanencimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Wikimedia *used* to hold the position that we wouldn't aid China to block images of the Tianamen Massacre, and went to great lengths to assure that chinese users of

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-18 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 18.09.2011 13:56, schrieb Andre Engels: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 18.09.2011 09:46, schrieb Andre Engels: On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Wikimedia *used* to hold

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