[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Nathan]

You speak on behalf of the Hebrew Wikipedia community as a whole?

Nathan

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Yoni Weiden <yonidebest at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wikimedia officials, let this be known:
>
> As long as there are racist pictures and cartoons in articles of
> personalities such as Ariel Sharon:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ariel_Sharon&oldid=9263178
> The Hebrew Wikipedia community will boycott Commons and not link to pages
> in
> that project. We will not allow our readers to be exposed to such pictures
> placed inapropriatly and insultingly.
>
> This is simply disgraceful. These racist and hate-encouraging pictures in
> galleries as such is not what the Foundation intended, IMHO.
>
> Regards,
> a concerned Hebrew Wikipedian
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