So you're arguing that the woman is topless in order to conform to realistic portrayals of indigenous people? That's the biggest pile of bullshit I've heard in years.<br><br>Every few months one of the usual suspects nominates porn to be featured on Commons and we have to go through the same circus-show all over again. It's always porn for a male heterosexual audience, and it's always defended with cries against the evils of censorship and disingenuous arguments about the "educational value" of the image. I'm all for Commons hosting a wide array of uncensored images, but I'm tired of seeing the Main Page being used as a fap gallery for fanboys. Whether you agree with it or not, featuring such images is distasteful to a lot of people - and not necessarily because they are "prudish" or "religious". I don't see how exercising editorial judgement about our public image and being respectful of women is "compromising our core values". Driving people away from the site and eroding our reputation as a serious educational resource do nothing to improve the project. If you want to fight against censorship, help defend the "Rape", "Rape statistics", and "False accusation of rape" articles against <a href="http://antimisandry.com">antimisandry.com</a>. Or better yet, file a DMCA counter-notice to restore the links in the "Texas Instruments signing key controversy" article. For some reason people don't seem as concerned about the real incidents of censorship on our projects.<br>
<br>Ryan Kaldari<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Aaron Adrignola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron.adrignola@gmail.com">aaron.adrignola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Commons is not censored. It's a beautiful scene and it would be expected that the an imaginary tribal member would not have the American sensitivities to toplessness. Some images may offend. Some articles may offend. We're not going to compromise our core values just to try to close a "gap" that some feel is such a big issue, if it even exists.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:31 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tinucherian@gmail.com" target="_blank">tinucherian@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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FYI<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Tinu Cherian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sarah Stierch</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarah@sarahstierch.com" target="_blank">sarah@sarahstierch.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:33 AM<br>Subject: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons<br>To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects <<a href="mailto:gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>
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Surely I'm not the only one who noticed this lovely gem of a photo
of the day today. In my work environment - NFWS.<br>
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<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br>
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Direct link to image:<br>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg</a><br>
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I mean really? /facepalm<br>
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This is the kind of imagery I have no desire to see on the front
page of Commons. I'm a very liberal person, but, this makes me not
want to even allow my MOTHER to use Commons. <br>
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#wikilove,<br>
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Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(39, 153, 128)">Sarah Stierch
Consulting</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(39, 153, 128)">Historical, cultural
& artistic research, advising & event planning.</span></div>
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