[Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

[Cecil]

2011/5/16 Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com>

> There seems to be a worrying tendency to treat Commons as a gallery for
> non-notable art.
>
> It's an educational project, not a vehicle for self-promotion.
>
> A.
>



Actually, Wikipedia is the educational project, not Commons.
Commons is a repository for media of all kind. There is nowhere the
restriction that a file has to be educational.


And as a girl (or more a long-grown woman) with no real interest in mangas
my opinion is that the image has nice colours, is cleanly made and in
general aesthetically pleasing. Only complaint: it is a bit kitschy.

lg, Cecil






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> --- On *Mon, 16/5/11, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org>* wrote:
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> From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia
> Commons
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> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 14:04
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> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Chris McKenna <cmckenna at sucs.org<http://mc/compose?to=cmckenna@sucs.org>
> > wrote:
>
> Am I alaone in completely failing to understand what the fuss is about?
> The image is not pornographic, exploitative, illegal or otherwise
> inapropriate for featured picture status.
>
>
> The image is also not artistically, historically, or culturally
> significant, unlike all the other examples you cited. The only reason it's
> featured is because it's sexually arousing to anime fanboys who happen to
> dominate the culture of Wikimedia Commons. I don't need to crawl into a
> semantic rabbit-hole to defend this observation. I think its obvious to any
> reasonable person. If the image would be embarrassing to pull up in front of
> a classful of students, it shouldn't be on the Commons Main Page.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
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