Image filter referendum/en

This is an archived version of this page, as edited by Rajneeshrao (talk | contribs) at 11:41, 17 August 2011 (Background). It may differ significantly from the current version.
The referendum ended 30 August 2011. No more votes will be accepted.
The results were announced on 3 September 2011.

Image filter referendum

Organization

This page concerns a consultation about the details of how to implement a decision that was taken by the WMF Board in June 2011. It does not concern the possibility of accepting or rejecting that decision.

The Wikimedia Foundation is holding a referendum to gather more input in to the development and usage of an opt-in personal image hiding feature, which will allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own accounts. Such a feature was requested by the Board of Trustees in June 2011.

The referendum began on 15 August 2011 and ends on 30 August, and is conducted on servers hosted by Software in the Public Interest. Further details and educational materials are available on these pages.

After you read the voting information, click here for eligibility and instructions.

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Rules

Eligibility

Editors

You may vote from any one registered account you own on a Wikimedia wiki (you may only vote once, regardless of how many accounts you own). To qualify, this one account must:

  • not be blocked on more than one project; and
  • not be blocked on the project you are voting from; and
  • not be a bot; and
  • have made at least 10 edits before 1 August 2011 across Wikimedia wikis (edits on several wikis can be combined if your accounts are unified into a global account)
Developers

MediaWiki developers qualify to vote if they:

  • are Wikimedia server administrators with shell access; or
  • have commit access to Wikimedia's SVN and have made at least one commit.
Staff and contractors

Wikimedia Foundation staff and contractors qualify to vote if they are employed by the Foundation on the date of their vote, and were employed prior to August 1, 2011.

Board members and advisory board members

Current and former members of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board are qualified to vote.

How to vote

If you are eligible to vote:

  1. Read the questions and decide on your position.
  2. Go to one wiki you qualify to vote from. In the search bar, type in Special:SecurePoll/vote/230. For example, if you are most active on the wiki meta.wikimedia.org, go to meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/230.
  3. Click "Go to the voting server". This will direct you to the SPI server to vote.
  4. Follow the instructions on that page.

You have to enable cookies on wikimedia.amellus.net to be recognized by the voting interface, because otherwise you'll get an error. If you get the error "Sorry, you are not in the predetermined list of users authorised to vote in this election.", you're on the wrong wiki: try to access "Special:SecurePoll" from your home wiki.

You can return to the voting page and change your votes later.

Questions

The questions asked on the voting page are the following - responses are a number between 0 and 10 (0 strongly disagree to 10 strongly agree) or "?":

  1. It is important for the Wikimedia projects to offer this feature to readers.
  2. It is important that the feature be usable by both logged-in and logged-out readers.
  3. It is important that hiding be reversible: readers should be supported if they decide to change their minds.
  4. It is important that individuals be able to report or flag images that they see as controversial, that have not yet been categorized as such.
  5. It is important that the feature allow readers to quickly and easily choose which types of images they want to hide (e.g., 5-10 categories), so that people could choose for example to hide sexual imagery but not violent imagery.
  6. It is important that the feature be culturally neutral: as much as possible, it should aim to reflect a global or multi-cultural view of what imagery is potentially controversial.

Organization

Timeline

  • 2011-06-30: announcement made; initial translation phase begins.
  • 2011-07-25: referendum details and FAQ published; main translation phase begins.
  • 2011-08-08: ideally all translations have been completed.
  • 2011-08-15: referendum begins.
  • 2011-08-17: mail sending begins (to all eligible voters who haven't opted out)
  • 2011-08-30: referendum ends; vote-checking and tallying begins.
  • 2011-09-01: results announced.

Translations

To ensure that a representative cross-section of the Wikimedia community takes part in this referendum, it is important to translate notices and referendum information into as many languages as possible. To help translate, please see the translation page. If you speak other languages, we would appreciate your help.