Hi Sarah, the terms of use come from the Foundation. I think the suggestion is that Wikipedia is often a hostile work environment for women because of sexism, and so the question is whether something about not creating a hostile environment in that way could be added to the terms of use. (I know it would be difficult to find the right words.)

We don't have a similar situation with racism, and wouldn't tolerate it if one developed. I'm trying to think of an analogy. It might be something like uploading thousands of photographs of African Americans as slaves, or being lynched, then adding to them to unrelated articles whenever possible. We wouldn't allow that to happen -- those responsible would be blocked, and the images would at least be removed from unrelated articles without argument.

Commons is a separable issue (though obviously related, attitude-wise). Would it be a huge problem if it were to fork? Or if a separate pornography project were to be created by the Foundation or others?

Sarah