Just to note - many other projects feature the Commons picture and media of
the day on their main pages. It would not just be Commons users who came
upon this image; it would have been readers and visitors from several dozen
other projects, many of whose languages are not includd in the image
information, who were perhaps unexpectedly greeted by an image of stacked
dead bodies with their morning cornflakes - and based on the discussion on
Commons, being confronted with this deliberately and intentionally, and in
a format that the majority of people cannot access or mitigate.
Risker/Anne
On 9 May 2014 15:50, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Kevin Gorman
<kgorman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Leigh: I don't want to cover that up, which is why I explicitly support
us
having the video and other relevant images, and
using them in a way that
provides educational/editorial value. Yesterday, most viewers couldn't
have
played the video the still linked to, because it
was in a format
relatively
few browsers support. Context for the image was
only provided in 5
languages, whereas we run projects in 287 different languages. For any
viewer who didn't speak one of those five languages and who couldn't play
the video (and most viewers can't play the video,) the still wouldn't
have
had the effect of serving as a shocking reminder
of the events of the
holocaust. It would've just been a grainy black and white stack of
corpses
decontextualised from any meaning.
Kevin - can I ask, if the video were playable by many or most people, would
that make it acceptable to you? What proportion of Commons viewers (as
opposed to the number of languages supported by any Wikimedia project) need
to be able to read the explanation before the context issue is resolved? To
me, context and accessibility are really secondary questions that assume
the fundamental question of appropriateness has already been answered
positively.
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