On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelgarte@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
Is this picture worth more than 137,000 news images, Is this picture worth the loss of xontributions from GLAM organisations Is this picture worth the cost of denying other contributors the opportunity to participate.
If we buy this contributions with a loss of liberty. Then yes. Nothing is as worthy as liberty.
That sounds very nice, but what liberty have you lost. The right for Commons to put an amateur image in front of millions of eyeballs? By working with GLAMs, we can obtain high resolution images of the real thing - the images which had an impact and defined their sub-genre at the time.
I don't mind if we do put a confronting image or article in front of millions of eyeballs, however we should be self-aware and ensure that we are making good use of the opportunity. If we are going to put sexual/confronting/challenging content on the front page of Commons, it should be significant, and the majority of viewers should be able to appreciate why it was selected for the front page of Wikimedia Commons.