Ryan,

Creating galleries would mitigate the problem for these half-dozen searches (though not eliminate it, as users would still have the option of searching Commons rather than navigating to a Commons page).

But it's like the story of the Dutch boy trying to plug a hole in the levee with his finger. (Searching for "levee" in Commons brings up an image of a naked Suicide Girl called Levee in third place.)

We should be under no illusion that we can find all search terms whose results violate the principle of least surprise, presenting adult images for everyday search terms.

New such situations arise on a daily basis, each time someone uploads an explicit file that has a plausible search term in its name and description (try searching Commons for "eating", and then search for "drinking"; or try finding images of Prince Albert).

We should simply offer safe search, like Google does.

Andreas

From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org>
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thursday, 13 October 2011, 19:31
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Commons Searches
One easy way to fix all of these searches is to create Gallery pages for these terms. If a gallery page for "cucumber" existed, all searches for "cucumber" would go immediately to that gallery page rather than pulling up random images.

Ryan Kaldari

On 10/12/11 3:49 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
Thanks for the link, Brandon.

I had raised this in the image filter discussions on Foundation-l yesterday (as well as on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier ), and it seems to have triggered some thought, which is all for the good.

Here are searches that deliver similar results in Wikipedia and Commons:

pearl necklace

cucumber

Zahnbürste (German for toothbrush)

toothbrush

electric toothbrushes

jumping ball

underwater

... and likely many, many others.

Andreas

From: Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org>
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 21:31
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Commons Searches

Funnily, I just answered that question on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-second-image-returned-on-Wikimedia-Commons-when-one-searches-for-electric-toothbrush-an-image-of-a-female-masturbating

On 10/12/11 7:48 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> Brandon,
>
> On a matter that originally arose in Meta and on the Foundation list,
> but may be of interest to this list as well, do you know the answer to the
> question posed here ...
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-October/006290.html
>
> ... or do you know someone who does?
>
> Andreas
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org>
> *To:* Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
> <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 6:13
> *Subject:* Re: [Gendergap] Mind the Gap Award is here.
>
> (offlist)
>
> I think your efforts are perfect, and above and beyond. I don't need to
> step in here.
>
>
>
> On 10/11/11 10:10 PM, Jutta von Dincklage wrote:
> > Brandon, I still think we need to remake the logo. This was just
> a quick, basic whiz.
> > I would still love your graphic skills on this one if you can
> spare the time
> >
> > ... cause I am a woman and I truly appreciate amazing design
> > ... and this award deserves it ;-)
> >
> >> Ah, too fast for me! I was about to remake the entire thing, but got
> >> stuck trying to find an acceptable replacement font (the real
> one is for
> >> sale at the princely sum of $299.00!).
> >
> >
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