View source for Resolution talk:Personal image hiding feature

== FAQ ==
; Q  - What does it mean to "affirm our support for user choice"? 
: A: It is important for readers to be able to customize their experience on the projects, and to make their browsing and searching useful and comfortable.  

; Q -  If there is a simple feature like this that is designed by community members and supported by the vast majority of people in a community (say, in a long-running RfC), would it be implemented? 
: A: For features that are not controversial and supported by a vast majority of community members: yes.  Gathering feedback on a feature request, and gauging community interest in it, is a bottleneck for implementation.

; Q - What does this mean for suggestions proposed so far, by community members and others, to provide users with a choice in what images they see?
: A: A variety of useful suggestions has been proposed to help customize image display; from solutions for individual pages where the curation and selection of images is controversial (e.g., [[w:Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Muhammad_images/Functional_hatnote_demo|Muhammad]]), to options for customizing search results, to options for all images.   Those that gain widespread support may be developed and implemented; however there is no specific feature that has been singled out for development.

; Q - Could different communities choose to implement different solutions to this set of feature requests?  
: A: Yes.  Currently most communities implement their own solutions and editorial guidelines for issues that divide readers.  Any tools or features developed could be implemented by communities that want them.

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== Vote change record ==
Dear all,

I am happy to announce that the Board of Trustees has now unanimously approved this resolution [1] rescinding our previous direction to the Executive Director to develop a personal image hiding feature.

At our in-person board meeting of 11 July 2012, the vote on this was provisionally recorded at 9-1, with Jimmy voting against. Jimmy has since changed his vote to a yes, on reviewing an FAQ accompanying this resolution which notes that the board is willing to approve a plan broadly backed by the community.

Thus the vote on this has now been changed to 10-0.

The FAQ accompanying the board resolution is on this talk page.

The resolution remains at: [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:_Personal_Image_Hiding_Feature