I think this is a great idea actually. Probably a good place to start would
be the WikiProject: Sex page:
Commons would probably be (or should be) interested as well.
Cheers
DM
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Jiří Hofman <hofmanj(a)aldebaran.cz> wrote:
Hello!
It is clear that much of sex-related multimedia stored in our project is of
a very low quality, not meeting our requirements and needs. Often, it
doesn't provide what we are looking for - high quality information.
I propose to start a project which would encourage, by a form of contest
and rewards, high quality (that means technical quality, usefulness for
education, aesthetic value etc...) multimedia which could be used in our
projects. Such multimedia can easily replace current low quality content.
Once we will have multimedia excellently covering something particular, we
can easily reject anything else trying to cover the same. And nobody could
blame us for hosting bad images anymore.
I understand that some people can say "we don't support porn" now. But
this
won't be porn but information! Our projects must cover also sex-related
matters. We have to look for high quality multimedia for this area of
knowledge as well as for others. There are projects supporting taking
photographs of municipalities etc... Why not to use similar ways for
improving this?
I don't propose intentionally how such a project should decide what exactly
the multimedia in the contest should depict nor how exactly the contest
should be arranged. I feel this should be defined by a broader community. I
only propose to use a new internet domain for this purpose in order to keep
not yet chosen materials out of our projects until they are awarded.
Don't forget that sex-related articles are the most viewed ones in
Wikipedia. We need the high quality content in this field too, not to wait
until somebody uploads something which could be useful. Also a license and
personal rights are quite often an issue for sex-related multimedia. All
this can be solved and we could obtain the best sex-related multimedia among
all encyclopedias.
Best regards,
Jiri
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, David Goodman
<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
<snip>
As for the link, showing these in greatly
enlarged versions, without
the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a
strong bias. We've never engaged in that use of the material, nor
would we. If people want to take our material out of our encyclopedic
content and turn it into sexually-focused presentations, that is their
look-out.
What if they aren't used in an encyclopedic context?
PM says he highlighted 17 images [1].
Assuming Commons "Global File Links" is accurate then these images
appear on 27 content pages in Wikipedias and Wikibooks (not counting
User and Talk pages, etc.). However, two of the images account for 16
of the uses, and 10 of the 17 images are not used on any project at
all. This is of course a largely anecdotal sample (and there is no
reason to assume that PM's set is random), but my personal impression
has been similar. It seems to like we have seen a rise in unused
sexual imagery being stored at Commons.
I'll happily defend the usefulness of sexual imagery in many of the
places where it is used, but there are downsides to allowing such
collections grow far beyond the applications we have for them.
-Robert Rohde
[1]
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