[Foundation-l] Sexual Content on Wikimedia

[Chad]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:53 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/1/30 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>:
> > I'm certainly anti-censorship, so I don't advocate deleting all or any
> > nude photographs. However, asking uploaders a few basic questions
> > about their uploaded nudes (is the depicted model above the age of
> > consent? is the depicted model aware that this photograph was taken?
> > Is the depicted model aware that this photo is being uploaded here?)
> > could help a lot of people avoid a lot of problems. Remember, it's not
> > just the WMF who risks potential problems (and admittedly as an ISP
> > the WMF's risk is probably very low), it's the people who are being
> > depicted abusively that are going to have the biggest problems with
> > these images.
> >
> > --Andrew Whitworth
>
> I would probably view it as an issue of image quality. We have had
> Template:Nopenis for some time which among other things focuses on
> quality.
>
> The providence of an image is a quality issue. Since we have no
> shortage of pics of women in various states of undress (see
> Category:Nude women and Category:Female genitalia) some of which have
> fairly clear providence (see Category:SuicideGirls for example) I see
> no reason why we should accept further images of questionable
> providence and quality.
>
> I've already created Template:Nobreasts and it would probably useful
> if someone put together Template:Novulva
>
>
Wouldn't a generic solution be more adequate? Certainly better than
going through all of the human anatomy.

-Chad