"We have been noticing a lot more similar
sounding, similar looking e-mails
beginning >mid-January," said Jay Walsh, a
spokesman for the Wikimedia
Foundation in San Francisco, >which administers the various online
encyclopedias in more than 250 languages.
A Frequently Asked Questions page explains the
site's polite but firm
refusal to remove the >images: "Since Wikipedia
is an encyclopedia with the
goal of representing all topics from a >neutral point of view, Wikipedia is
not censored for the benefit of any particular group."
The site considered but rejected a compromise that
would allow visitors to
choose whether >to view the page with images.
It's moments like these that make me proudest to be a Wikipedian. To be a
part of the community that said no censorship, whether it be from religious
zealots or Chinese bureaucrats, is a wonderful thing.
On Feb 5, 2008 6:33 AM, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/books/05wiki.html?ref=world
Media coverage of the Muhammad image problem.
On Feb 5, 2008 9:14 AM, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
For me the greatest concern of a censorship
mechanism is that it
blatantly encourages NPOV violation as common practice.
"Censorship" is of course a heavily loaded word, but I've never
viewed content-tagging mechanisms, or "hide" mechanisms that are
positively *un*hidden by default, as censorship.
(But yes, were such mechanisms in place, I suppose epic POV
battles would be bound to erupt around the question of whether to
use them in particular cases, immaterial though the outcome would
be to the majority of readers who browse using default settings.)
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