On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Laura Hale laura@fanhistory.com wrote:
I edit Wikipedia a lot. I probably spend more time than I should editing Wikipedia. Can I ask where there is a prevalence of pornography on Wikipedia? I honestly can't think of a single time I have come across it when I wasn't directly looking for it.
Encyclopedias (Wikipedia language editions) have increasingly comprehensive articlse /about/ pornography, with illustrations. But as you note, you won't come across it unless you are looking for it.
Commons has a large collection of orphaned images which are not used in any articles or on any other Wikimedia project, but are well-categorized. This long tail of images shows up in many searches (sometimes at the top, as in Andreas's examples), and can be surprising: macabre or pornographic or sacrilegious or circus images that happen to include a trout may show up in a search for 'trout'. This is how most people run across undesired images of all kinds: a media search on their home wiki, which happens to search Commons media as well.
SJ, coulrophobic