From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 22:40 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content - Commons searches
What you are all missing here is that commons is a service site, not a repository for the public to go into without knowing it caters to different cultures than their own. Period.
Google is a service site too, and a better-designed one than Commons.
If I search for cream pie, and I want to find cakes, I leave safe search on:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=creampie&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tb...
If I search for cream pie and want to find porn, I switch safe search off:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&q=cream+pie&a...
I know Google caters to both "cultures", but I can decide beforehand what it will show me.
That is good service.
Andreas