Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
2010/7/25 Andreas Kolbe jayen466@yahoo.com:
From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
Yes, the devil is in the details, and in working out
the correct parameters for default IP access. Each language version of any project could make its own determination in this regard. Arabic, no Mohammed images; India, no sex and kissing; Dutch and German, the full Monty with no censorship at all. Whatever.
The sum of all human knowledge! Filtered by default to what we think local prejudices are! And never mind that pesky Neutral Point Of View.
No, not filtered according to what *we* think, but filtered according to what the local editor community in that project think is appropriate to their cultural context.
I guess in most local editor communities the consensus about this is simply not achievable, as long as the entire project is POV and this is our real problem with implementing any kind of soft-semi but still cenzorship. It simply touches your personal cultural contex, which is different for devoted catholic or devoted musilm or the non-religous person. Moreover if it comes to pictures we are saying about Wikimedia Commons which is by default global. In fact English Wikipedia is quite global project as well... Each such person thinks the the general cenzorship rules should follow his/her cultural context. But the NPOV idea is that Wikipedia content should not be affected by POV coming form this or another cultural context, which let contribute to it no matter of your cultural contex, as long as you are able to accept having in Wikipedia all other's people POV mixed together in NPOV style.
I think you are confused. It is not a POV not to display images by default if those images can be accessed by a simple mouse click, it is simple good manners. For example I may want to read about 'Tribute pictures': http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cum%20tribute
it doesn't mean to say that I want to look at some guy's spooge over a picture of the woman next door.
And as I said earlier just because I'm reading about the Rawandan geonicide doesn't mean that I want to see images of mutilated bodies. And were I a Muslim I ought to be able to read about images of Mohammed without seeing images of him burning in hell.
Of course I may wish to see all such images and so long as I can should I so desire then it is not censorship nor it a violation of NPOV.