2008/12/23 Andrew Cates <[email protected]>: > You have an uphill fight on this. Some of the worse deletion decisions > the community has made, have been from people claiming "censorship" > and getting massive popular support: I sometimes wonder if a majority > of wikipedia editors are still teenage (literally) rebels.
Yes. And given to robotic determinism in implementation of rules. And go away after 12-18 months, like people in most other MMORPGs. > There is another lingering proposal which I think originally came from > Erik Moeller which is to tag content with an off/on switch on > child-safe, "potentially offensive" or similar. This was in response > to a complaint about us removing some gruesome holocaust images from > the Schools wikipedia. > The advantages would be an increased preparedness on the part of > schools to give access. The disadvantage would be a switch which many > people would not bother with and the usual fruitcakes would abuse. We > did look at whether the schools wikipedia and Wikipedia 1.0 could be > converged as projects if such a switch existed. > On balance there were other priorities. Others have proposed a third party rating specific revs of specific articles, sort of like how Veropedia does it. Which is basically a matter of someone bothering who thinks they can do it scalably. But it's unlikely to fly as something to be done on a WMF site itself. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
