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

[Tobias Oelgarte]

Am 16.05.2011 22:39, schrieb Nathan:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Chris McKenna<cmckenna at sucs.org>  wrote:
>
>> I don't know where you get the impression that anyone here is promoting
>> any sort of lackadaiscial attitude?
>> As far as I read the arguments we have two groups of people, those who
>> want to censor images that they do not like or that they think other
>> people will not like; and those that want to actively stand up for the
>> rights to an uncensored collection of free media.
>>
>> Commons is not censored, if you want a collection of free media that does
>> not offend you or someone else then you are in the wrong place.
>>
>> ----
>> Chris McKenna
>>
>> cmckenna at sucs.org
>> www.sucs.org/~cmckenna
>
> Someone reading this conversation might almost think that "uncensored
> images" is the defining core value of Commons. If that's actually the
> case, some rebranding is necessary. I imagine you could certainly
> attract an audience with a site advertised as being uncensored, but I
> was always under the impression that Commons and Wikimedia were out
> for a broader, more fully clothed audience.
>
> What's funny is that you actually think you are arguing against
> attempts at censorship; what this demonstrates more than anything else
> is that you have deeply misunderstood censorship and what it means.
> Unfortunately, you are obviously not nearly open minded enough to
> learn from any explanation.
>
> I will try to make one point: You are not in any sense the proprietor,
> gatekeeper, authority or representative of Commons the project or its
> community. You have no right to tell people "If you don't like it, get
> out" as you have done several times. They are as free to express their
> opinion as you are, and many (as you've no doubt noticed) disagree
> with you. So why not take a break from telling people to go away?
>
> Nathan
>
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Additionally the German community decided with 233:13 votes against any 
kind of censorship of the mainpage. That means, any article or image 
that is considered good in previous a previous debate has it's right (to 
be good enough) to be shown on the mainpage, no matter what it is. That 
is my interpretation of not censored, preselected content by a minority.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Beschr%C3%A4nkung_der_Themen_f%C3%BCr_den_Artikel_des_Tages

Tobias