[Foundation-l] Racism in Commons

[Yoni Weiden]

I had opened a discussion on this issue and during the discussion a link
to Commons was removed from the Hebrew article Ariel Sharon, and was not
reverted by anyone. No one objected to this removal, and as such, represents
a precede.

I obviously would like the Wikimedia Foundation management to interfeer
because Commons has good photos of Ariel Sharon and same goes in other
cases. If this continues, I expect that we can simple upload the good
pictures to Hebrew Wikipedia and show them as a gallery in the article.


2008/3/5, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:

> 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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