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MediaViewer labels both Non-Nazi swastikas (e.g. Jainism) and Nazi swastikas as fascist imagery.
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If a user opens a photo of Adolf Hitler or other Nazi-related imagery in MediaViewer, such as the one below, then right next to the copyright information there is a symbol of a swastika with an exclamation point inside of it. Mousing over the symbol informs the user that:

This image contains Nazi or other fascist insignia which may be banned in some countries.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hitler_portrait_crop.jpg

This was a feature implemented by T102693.

A bug/problem with this feature, however, is photos of a Jainist or other religious swastikas (example given below) are also tagged as containing Nazi/fascist imagery.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In-jain.svg

This is a problem as many religious swastikas are in no way related to Nazi Germany and are almost always completely legal when used in a religious or non Nazi-related context. This appears to be due to their inclusion in "Category:Nazi symbols status".

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Chess created this task.Oct 15 2019, 5:55 AM
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Masumrezarock100 moved this task from Backlog to Needs Analysis on the MediaViewer board.Oct 15 2019, 6:32 AM
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Aklapper added a comment.Oct 15 2019, 6:34 AM

multimediaviewer-restriction-insignia currently states This image contains Nazi or other fascist insignia which may be banned in some countries.
Should probably be rephrased a bit, to say something like
This image contains a symbol which may be banned in some countries due to being used in Nazi or other fascist context. or such (someone might be able to better phrase it).

Wondering if multimediaviewer-restriction-communist might suffer from the same problem (probably not).

Aklapper moved this task from Needs Analysis to Backlog on the MediaViewer board.Mar 16 2022, 11:34 AM
Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.Jul 14 2022, 9:51 AM
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