[Foundation-l] Mini update on sexual content discussions

[Andreas Kolbe]

Also raised on the Sexual content talk page in Commons are uploads by User:Midnight68. Some users feel these are out of scope at Commons, and may violate child pornography laws:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archive001.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_by_User:Midnight68

A.

--- On Fri, 6/8/10, private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Mini update on sexual content discussions
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Friday, 6 August, 2010, 8:23
> G'day all,
> 
> I hope it's appropriate to cross-post this to both commons
> and foundation
> lists - it seems so to me, and no doubt if there's a
> courtesy or practice
> I'm unaware of, someone will be kind enough to point it out
> :-) (rude words
> and nasty comments are ok, but it's better if they rhyme.)
> 
> Discussions at the meta page where Robert Harris is posing
> some related
> questions is gently dying down -
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:2010_Wikimedia_Study_of_Controversial_Content
> 
> and over on commons we're approaching another poll about
> whether to adopt
> the 'sexual content' policy proposal -
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content#Another_poll.3F
> 
> What appears to be the largest point of discussion extant
> is whether or not
> media featuring sexual content should contain at least an
> assertion that all
> of the participants consent to the upload / publishing of
> the material - you
> can see some folk arguing that we shouldn't apply such a
> condition
> retrospectively, and maybe not at all -
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content#Automatic_deletions_by_noconsent_template
> 
> I believe consent is desirable across the board in regard
> to sexual content,
> and would like to see this sort of wording ratified as
> policy -
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Sexual_content&oldid=42301328#consent
> 
> The discussions are actually pretty substantial, civil,
> useful, and
> generally better than we've managed in the past, and of
> course the more
> outside views on the matter, the better - so if you're at
> all inclined to
> share your thoughts on the commons specific side of how WMF
> handles sexual
> content, please do pipe up, either ahead of, or as part of
> the upcoming
> poll....
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Peter,
> PM.
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