[Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

[Béria Lima]

And again: We can 't act against the community. If you "Community" doesn't
speak up, we can't do anything. And btw, even the "porn" article deserve a
picture, no?
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On 25 December 2011 18:43, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com>wrote:

> Its your call "Commons Admins".
> There is some (hidden and very thin ) dividing line between porn and naked.
>
> I am told that in some Middleeast countries, where there are restrictions
> on webcontent, Wikipedia is also used by youngsters for porn/naked
> (whatever you feel correct) pictures/content.
>
> I don't have any knowledge of the previous threads. Its your(admins) call
> ultimately.
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And what you want us (Commons Admins) to do Sudhanwa? Delete all picture
>> with a naked person in it? That didn't go well the last time someone tryed
>> ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content/Archive_3).
>>
>> and btw, why just  nude people? Muhammed are forbidden by Muslins laws
>> and we have
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Depictions_of_Muhammad (not
>> to mention that 2/3 of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Muhammed are
>> drawings and pictures) . Should we delete this too?
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>>
>> *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
>> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
>> construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>*
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25 December 2011 17:16, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to talk to "Blue Coat" and remove commons from their
>>> blacklist.
>>> btw, there are pictures on commons that can easily go in the porn
>>> category.
>>> Some serious admin work is needed there.
>>>
>>> -Sudhanwa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>>> parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So I spent the afternoon doing some research on this matter [on my
>>>> phone], and learnt that it isn't the network admin who has blocked the
>>>> site. The so called security software, Blue Coat, in this case, tags
>>>> the Commons as Media download site. So blocking sites in this
>>>> category, blocks Commons, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, MetaCafe, etc.
>>>> Similarily, there are some which categorise the Commons as
>>>> 'Pornography' ...
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>>>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 13th.
>>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>>>> Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll
>>>> Plaza.
>>>>
>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG
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