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.
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:31 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.comwrote:
FYI
Regards Tinu Cherian
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sarah Stierch sarah@sarahstierch.com Date: Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:33 AM Subject: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects < gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org>
Surely I'm not the only one who noticed this lovely gem of a photo of the day today. In my work environment - NFWS.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Direct link to image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg
I mean really? /facepalm
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.
#wikilove,
Sarah
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