<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">--- On </font><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Wed, 18/5/11, Béria Lima <i><beria.lima@wikimedia.pt></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"> wrote:</font><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; ">From: Béria Lima <beria.lima@wikimedia.pt><br>Subject: Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons<br>To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org><br>Date: Wednesday, 18 May, 2011, 12:54<br><br><div id="yiv1646273290"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Andreas, </font></div>
<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Again: Stop canvassing your POV!!! This list (and Commons-l) are not for that.</font></p>
<div>That is my last warning<br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div>This list was set up to discuss systemic issues in Foundation projects. In the opinion of several contributors here, this specific issue is profoundly symptomatic of the issue this list was set up to discuss.</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">This includes Commons selecting images for featured status on the basis of comments like "I like her big tits", rather than artistic merit, and then featuring them on the main page. Or creating categories like "People using vacuum cleaners".</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People_using_vacuum_cleaners">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:People_using_vacuum_cleaners</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">In my view, it's a basic community competence issue.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Andreas</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br><br></font></div></td></tr></table>