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* The Wikipedia community, faced with competition from Google's Knol project, decides as a group that the only chance for survival is to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and the policy "Wikipedia:Jessica_Alba's_Breasts" is instituted. It requires every article on Wikipedia to contain a picture of, reference to or citation of one or both of Jessica Alba's breasts. This approach is so successful that the rest of the internet just gives the hell up.
- d.
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-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 3:51 AM To: English Wikipedia Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wired predictions, 2008
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* The Wikipedia community, faced with competition from Google's Knol project, decides as a group that the only chance for survival is to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and the policy "Wikipedia:Jessica_Alba's_Breasts" is instituted. It requires every article on Wikipedia to contain a picture of, reference to or citation of one or both of Jessica Alba's breasts. This approach is so successful that the rest of the internet just gives the hell up.
- d.
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On 26/12/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/12/alttext_12...
- The Wikipedia community, faced with competition from Google's Knol
project, decides as a group that the only chance for survival is to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and the policy "Wikipedia:Jessica_Alba's_Breasts" is instituted. It requires every article on Wikipedia to contain a picture of, reference to or citation of one or both of Jessica Alba's breasts. This approach is so successful that the rest of the internet just gives the hell up.
OK, who wants to turn the redlink blue? ;-)
Do we even have a fair use copy of an image of her breasts?
On Dec 26, 2007 9:28 AM, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/12/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/12/alttext_12...
- The Wikipedia community, faced with competition from Google's Knol
project, decides as a group that the only chance for survival is to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and the policy "Wikipedia:Jessica_Alba's_Breasts" is instituted. It requires every article on Wikipedia to contain a picture of, reference to or citation of one or both of Jessica Alba's breasts. This approach is so successful that the rest of the internet just gives the hell up.
OK, who wants to turn the redlink blue? ;-)
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On 26/12/2007, Nicolas Montes placebo.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Do we even have a fair use copy of an image of her breasts?
No, but do you seriously think that there's a court in the land would convict us? ;-)
I foresee a long trial with many evidentiary hearings, and an exploration into the 'body' of work we could draw from to see if there are any other fair use images!
On Dec 27, 2007 3:44 PM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/12/2007, Nicolas Montes placebo.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Do we even have a fair use copy of an image of her breasts?
No, but do you seriously think that there's a court in the land would convict us? ;-)
-- -Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly imperfect world things would be a lot better.
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On Dec 28, 2007 1:02 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Nathan wrote:
I foresee a long trial with many evidentiary hearings, and an exploration into the 'body' of work we could draw from to see if there are any other fair use images!
If the breasts are in the pub[l]ic domain, fair use restrictions may not apply.
How old would those have to be?
On 28/12/2007, Josh Gordon user.jpgordon@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28, 2007 1:02 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Nathan wrote:
I foresee a long trial with many evidentiary hearings, and an exploration into the 'body' of work we could draw from to see if there are any other fair use images!
If the breasts are in the pub[l]ic domain, fair use restrictions may not apply.
How old would those have to be?
Er. I'd have hoped for something a little less locker-roomish from wikien-l.
I took Lore Sjoberg's piece (and forwarded it here) as an example of the Wikipedia people actually read as opposed to the one we'd hope they read. With [[List of big bust models and performers]] as the #1 non-navigational hit for December. But not necessarily as a good thing, or something to riff off.
(Maybe I'm too sensitive or formed my views in the '80s, when "politically correct" was "ideologically sound" and was a *good* thing.)
- d.
On Dec 28, 2007 4:31 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Er. I'd have hoped for something a little less locker-roomish from wikien-l.
...
(Maybe I'm too sensitive or formed my views in the '80s, when "politically correct" was "ideologically sound" and was a *good* thing.)
I'm not sure if I'm being chastised or egged on.
On 28/12/2007, Josh Gordon user.jpgordon@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 28, 2007 1:02 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Nathan wrote:
I foresee a long trial with many evidentiary hearings, and an exploration into the 'body' of work we could draw from to see if there are any other fair use images!
If the breasts are in the pub[l]ic domain, fair use restrictions may not apply.
How old would those have to be?
Steady on! This is worse than IRC! :-D
On 26/12/2007, Nicolas Montes placebo.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Do we even have a fair use copy of an image of her breasts?
We have a free image:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jessica_Alba.jpg
Obviously there would be the normal personality rights issues.
Who puts penguins in a mall, seriously? Anyway, kind of a middling picture (defeats the purpose here!). Is continuing this thread going to invoke the wrath of David?
On Jan 1, 2008 2:31 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/12/2007, Nicolas Montes placebo.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Do we even have a fair use copy of an image of her breasts?
We have a free image:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jessica_Alba.jpg
Obviously there would be the normal personality rights issues.
geni
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On Dec 26, 2007 1:50 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/12/alttext_12...
- The Wikipedia community, faced with competition from Google's Knol
project, decides as a group that the only chance for survival is to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and the policy "Wikipedia:Jessica_Alba's_Breasts" is instituted. It requires every article on Wikipedia to contain a picture of, reference to or citation of one or both of Jessica Alba's breasts. This approach is so successful that the rest of the internet just gives the hell up.
- d.
Ah, Lore Sjoberg...
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