Forum:Parent Filter

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Hi, admin team!

I wanted to swing by and let you know of a new feature we've recently released for interested sites. It's called the Parent Filter and can be accessed through adding /wiki/MediaWiki:ParentFilter to the end of the site's url.

The purpose is two-fold: 1) to provide information to parents about the site's subject from people who are actually very familiar with the content and 2) to eventually provide a home or hub for all such pages parents can visit.

Here's a great example of the feature put to use.

You can learn more about it here. Feel free to throw any questions or comments you might have into that blog.

Best regards,

Raylan13 (talk) 20:19, September 16, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion

Comment - I'm not sure if we really need this since RuneScape has no explicit content and Jagex is probably a better authority on this subject anyway. --Liquid^Talk 23:41, September 16, 2013 (UTC)

Actually there is quite a bit of content that could be seen as explicit: batwing robes for females, mermaids, the various uses of mild swear words such as damn, ass, etc Template:Signatures/Ciphrius Kane 00:43, September 17, 2013 (UTC)

I hate when my mom comes in when I'm looking up the stats for batwing and then she hits me for "looking at porn". MolMan 00:46, September 17, 2013 (UTC)

Nty - We don't really need this. All poorly made, polygonal breasts aside, there is, as helmet said, no explicit content. Also, we're not really a site that needs to worry about "parental consent" and joining it; people are finding us by googling a RuneScape term and seeing us as #1. After that, they're closing the tab and killing Graardor. Also, wouldn't it be easier to just say it is located at "MediaWiki:ParentFilter" instead of telling us to append "/wiki/MediaWiki:ParentFilter" to the url? I mean, if we'd want any real attention to the page, it'd be linked instead of found by typing in into the url... MolMan 00:56, September 17, 2013 (UTC)

Don't forget that a lot of staffers aren't wiki masters. User:TyA/sig 01:52, September 17, 2013 (UTC)

Except this particular member of staff is the one Wikia hired to write WoW Wiki after they forked to Wowpedia. Having said that, if he had linked it and we never created it, it would appear on WantedPages. User:Cqm/Signature

Comment - The parent filter isn't there for us to warn people about explicit content, it's there for us to describe the content of the game and who it's suitable for. Is it that much of a problem for us to participate in this? User:Cqm/Signature

It's meant to tell parents that RuneScape is not some sort of virtual brothel. I know the effort is minimal, but the entire thing comes off with this "utterly useless" vibe. Why bother? MolMan 18:10, September 17, 2013 (UTC)

Just because you, as a non-parent, think it's useless, doesn't mean it won't be useful to someone else. It's not like it's even something we need to actively maintain, it'll probably be fine once it's set up. I don't even know why setting it up would need any form of consensus, I was considering setting it up when I saw the blog about it on central. User:Cqm/Signature

Comment - Promote was about as useful as this, and we did that. http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg244/blaze_fire12/RuneScape%20Wiki%20Images/Blaze_fire.pnghttp://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg244/blaze_fire12/RuneScape%20Wiki%20Images/12.png 18:20, September 17, 2013 (UTC)

Not even a filter - If anyone feels like it, they can write it up. As long as it doesn't disrupt us or our readers (like a real filter would). 222 ^talk 03:51, September 18, 2013 (UTC)