 | This help page is ahow-to guide. It explains concepts or processes used by the Wikipedia community. It is not one ofWikipedia's policies or guidelines, and may reflect varying levels ofconsensus. |
Some readers may not wish to see certain images on Wikipedia for various reasons—such images may beunsuitable for a work environment, they may wish toprevent children from viewing them, they may bespoilers for a certain work, or their religious or personal beliefs may discourage exposure to such content.
Wikipedia is not censored, meaning that content is not removed simply because some find it objectionable.No specific disclaimers are placed on articles to warn readers about potentially sensitive content. All articles fall under Wikipedia’sContent disclaimer, which applies site-wide.
However, readers who wish to prevent certain images from displaying have options to customize their experience.
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Wikipedia readers can influence how Wikipedia content is displayed on their screens in two ways:
To create an account, visitCreate account.
Once you have created an account, you will be able to use features of the wiki software to disable specific images or sets of images from being displayed by:
You can install a user script calledUser:Anomie/hide-images which replaces all images with a placeholder image. Clicking the placeholder image will reveal the original image. To hide images in this fashion, install the required user script by following the directions below:
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First, copy the following text below to yourcommon.js page:
Then, copy the following text below to yourcommon.css page:
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You can simply reload the page in order to re-hide the images. To turn this entire feature off, simply undo the changes you made when you followed the instructions above.
You can disable the images on a specific page by changing your personal settings at yourcommon.css page. This allows you to avoid viewing images that may offend you, but without affecting images from being displayed as normal on other unrelated pages. To do this, follow the instructions below:
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To disable images on a specific page, go to yourcommon.css (common.css is your personalCSS page, and is different to yourcommon.js). Create the page if it doesn't exist, and add the following code below:
Where you'll replace For example, to disable images from automatically displaying on theMuhammad article, your addition will look like this: If the page name includes spaces or punctuation marks, replace spaces with underscores (
Create a newline, with the same code for each page you'd like to disable images on. |
You can also disable specific images by individual filename. To enable this option, follow the instructions listed below:
Instructions to disable specific images |
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Go to yourcommon.css. Create the page if it doesn't exist, and with the following text below added to it:
Where you'll replace
Remember to replace spaces and punctuation marks within file names with underscores. If you wish to disable an image on another project from displaying automatically (for example, the Wikimedia Commons), your script will look like this:
Where, again, you'll replace |
Remember: Keep in mind that the images included in any given article, and their filenames, can change at any time, and generallymay change over time as the relevant article or page develops.
Here is an example file addressing content preferences with regard todepictions of Muhammad aimed at moderately strict Sunni Muslims. It's an example. Individual content preferences may vary.
Search result images can be turned off by altering the respective common.css for the skin being used and adding a rule to not display background images for spans of the class.wvui-typeahead-suggestion__thumbnail. For example:
span.wvui-typeahead-suggestion__thumbnail{background-image:none!important;}
Modifying the preference inabout:config:
extensions.contentblocker.enabled = true
With auserscript manager such asTampermonkey, you can install "hide-images-3", which hides images in Wikipedia until they are clicked on.
There are add-ons which provide image hiding functionalityhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-block/
Enterabout:config in the location box, and changepermissions.default.image to2 to disable image downloads. To restore the default behavior, change it back to 1.
Settings ▸ Websites ▸ Images ▸ select "Do not show any images."
The use of a text-based web browser such as Lynx will allow you to view Wikipedia without seeing any images at all, unless explicitly downloaded and shown in a separate application.
Internet Explorer 7 and onward
Open Tools and click the "Add-Ons" button in the "Main" Tab.Select and install "Adblock Plus". After restarting your browser, you have a menu labelled with an "ABP" icon in the top right of your browser window. From this menu, you can define precisely what content should be suppressed by your browser.
Do not use a predefined filterset, which may be configured to allow (whitelist) all Wikimedia content. Instead, use the "open blockable items" option to review whitelisted content on the current page, and disable filter rules as desired.
To block a specific image, right-click on it and select "Adblock image" from the context menu.For example, right-clicking on the top image atPenis, you get the option to block "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Labelled_bw_flaccid_penis.jpg/*". This will block all scaled-down versions ofFile:Labelled_bw_flaccid_penis.jpg. If you want to filter all images containing "penis" as part of the filename, use the rule "http://upload.wikimedia.org/*penis*".
Once you have defined a filterset, you can distribute it to interested parties sharing your content preferences.
You can selectively block content by using aweb filter program. Freely available examples includePrivoxy andDansGuardian. Once you have installed such a program, you can exert fine-grained control over what content is received by your web browser. This method can also be used for system administrators for schools and workplaces to restrict the access of potentially inappropriate images to students/employees. If you are using a URL based filter which also blocks images from a host, blocking Wikimedia will also block all images. Please note by doing this, some system icons on Wikipedia may no longer be visible as they are hosted on Wikimedia. Also any images from Wikimedia on any website will be blocked too.
