Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 06/12/2007, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Andrew Whitworth wrote:
Agreed: These images are pretty shocking, and I have to wonder why, exactly, commons needs to be giving them free hosting? They hardly further our goal of spreading knowledge for free.
I'm also a little shocked to hear that commons doesnt have at least some form of an NPOV policy? Do they have any kind of content-acceptability requirement, or can anybody post any and all offensive images on commons as they see fit?
--Andrew Whitworth
I looked for a detailed page on the matter. What I found is this
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Project_scope
According to this page, basically anything (if free) could be hosted.
The key section should be "Wikimedia Commons is a common central media repository of all Wikimedia projects":
"[...] files uploaded to the Commons have to be useful for some Wikimedia project. Media files that are not useful for any Wikimedia project are beyond the scope of Wikimedia Commons."
How could Commons be any more specific than that and still fill its "service" role?
regards Brianna
Maybe the solution is to as other projects did, rather than defining what "could be there", listing "what can not be there". Ie, "what wikimedia commons is not"
Ant