[Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
cimonavaro at gmail.com
Fri May 15 07:53:32 UTC 2009
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
>>
>> The challenge here isn't technical, but political/cultural; choosing how
>> to mark things and what to mark for a default view is quite simply
>> _difficult_ as there's such a huge variance in what people may find
>> objectionable.
>>
>>
>>
...
>> Generally sexual imagery is the prime target since it's the biggest
>> hot-button "save the children" issue for most people -- many parents
>> wouldn't be happy to have their kid read "list of sexual positions" but
>> would rather they read the text than see the pictures, even if they're
>> drawings.
>>
>>
>> Ultimately it may be most effective to implement something like this
>> (basically an expansion of the "bad image list" implemented long ago for
>> requiring a click-through on certain images which were being frequently
>> misused in vandalism) in combination with a push to create distinct
>> resources which really *are* targeted at kids -- an area in which
>> multiple versions targeted to different cultural groups are more likely
>> to be accepted than the "one true neutral article" model of Wikipedia.
>>
>>
Do you have no shame?
Have you any idea how california-centered that sounds?
We all stood shoulder to shoulder against Uwe Kils and
the Norwegian Vikings, and this is what we get?
A more perniciously, smoother talked version of the same
old spiel. One would be really excused at this point to
wonder if the only reason Uwe Kils got de-adminned
was because he couldn't speak the queens english
properly. Really!
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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