Is this picture worth more than 137,000 news
images,
Is this picture worth the loss of xontributions from GLAM organisations
Is this picture worth the cost of denying other contributors the
opportunity to participate.
On 17 May 2011 16:16, Tobias Oelgarte
<tobias.oelgarte(a)googlemail.com
<mailto:tobias.oelgarte@googlemail.com>> wrote:
Am 17.05.2011 02:34, schrieb Neil Kandalgaonkar:
On 5/16/11 8:21 PM, Cary Bass wrote:
> We need an active group of contributors who represent at the
very least
> some cross-section of not only Commons
contributors but of
interested
> re-users of Commons content to actively
monitor and maintain
the POTD.
> This is not the first time that something
inappropriate for
Main Page
> content has appeared and I doubt it will be
the last.
That is definitely a practical solution. POTD are scheduled
long in
advance, so that could solve the problems here
pretty quickly.
The image
in question is, IMO, unambiguously inappropriate
for Commons,
and this
shouldn't have been a difficult debate.
On the other hand it feels a bit wrong to me. In that case
we're asking
groups that are relatively underrepresented in
Wiki culture to
take on
the role of policing. I feel like they ought to
have some
rights to a
welcoming environment as a baseline. That said,
in a wiki
context, it
seems to be impossible to achieve such baseline
freedoms, as
long as the
offenders have large amounts of free time.
So some people are going to have to make the sacrifices to
change the
culture.
Another worry: if there's a "quality control board", officially or
unofficially, they can start to take that role too seriously
or become
captured by various radical factions. But I guess
we have to
take that
chance.
Another board for decisions? Just leave the communities alone.
They can
handle it very well on their own. Any board i know failed in so many
points. An good example from the German Wikipedia is the
"Schiedsgericht". This is the last call if some users can't be
stopped
from offending each other. But this board isn't trusted at all and
constantly breaks down. Just because it is seen as needless.
What im seeing here is the construction of an government which isn't
even democratic, getting very close to a dictatorship. Or as we
said in
the GDR: One party, elected by itself.
Tobias
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