Some people wish to not see some images. ("This isn't work safe! - My child might see this! - My country's laws forbid that! - My religion forbids that!")
Edit Wikipedia
Modify the image in some way
Sometimes a modification of the image or its placement is optimal. Be creative. Make it smaller, crop it, move it to the bottom, make it a click away, replace it with an acceptable image that fulfills the same educational functions.
Get it deleted
- Delete it yourself. (This only works if others mostly agree since edit warring is against Wikipedia rules.)
- Go to the talk page of the article the image is on and say why it should be deleted. Create a consensus to delete and it will be deleted.
- List the image at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion and create a consensus for it.
- Create or change a policy or guideline page
Fork Wikipedia
Fork Wikipedia. Wikipedia is copy left in both the software that runs it and the content that is displayed. You are legally permitted to copy the whole thing to another computer, change the content (but you may not legally change the copy left copyright licensing), and sell advertising on it to pay for the hosting and bandwidth costs. If you think there is a market for wikipedia without certain images, or with some other changes, then please fork Wikipedia. We want you to. That's why it is copy left in the first place.
Configure Wikipedia
Submit code change for Mediawiki
Submit code change for the copy left Mediawiki (which displays the Wikipedia content). The Wikimedia Foundation, that provides the hosting and bandwidth for Wikipedia, lacks funds to implement many good and useful modifications to the software that displays the Wikipedia content. Such modifications can be created and submitted to the Foundation for addition to Mediawiki.
An example of what could be created is a user option to not display images that are in certain categories.
How to set up your Wikipedia account to not see images on a specific article
To disable the display of images for a specific article only, you must have an account. If you do not have an account, visit Special:Userlogin to create one. Once you have an account, you can disable the images on a specific page by changing your personal settings at your CSS page. This allows you to avoid images that offend you without affecting other users. To do this, create a page at Special:Mypage/monobook.css and add the following line:
body.page-(page name) img {display: none;}
e.g.
body.page-Muhammad img {display: none;}
Configure your browser
How to block images site-wide (all Wikimedia projects)
Firefox 2.0
- either: right-click the example image to the right and select "Block Images from upload.wikimedia.org"
- or: select Edit/Preferences and in the Content tab click on "Exceptions" next to "Load images automatically". In the popup window, type "wikimedia.org" and click "Block".
How to set up your browser to not see images at all
Firefox 2.0
Without add-on
- On Windows, select the Tools menu. On Mac OSX, select the Firefox menu.
- Select "Options" on Windows, or Preferences on Mac OSX
- Click the "Content" tab.
- Uncheck the checkbox "Load images automatically."
With add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/232 allows you to add a button to the Firefox tool bar that toggles images on and off.[1]
Other Mozilla-based browsers
The Firefox 2.0 instructions may not work on all browsers in the Mozilla family (such as the GNOME web browser Epiphany). In that case, enter about:config in the ___location box, and change permissions.default.image to 2 to disable image downloads. To restore the default behavior, change it back to 1.
View->Images->No Images
- Click the "Tools" button.
- Select "Internet Options".
- Click the "Advanced" tab.
- Scroll down to "Multimedia" and uncheck "Show pictures".
Safari 3
- On Mac OSX, select the "Safari" menu.
- Click "Preferences".
- Click on the "Appearance" button.
- Uncheck "Display images when the page opens."