[Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2010/7/25 Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com>:
>> From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
>> > Yes, the devil is in the details, and in working out
>> the correct parameters for default IP access. Each language
>> version of any project could make its own determination in
>> this regard. Arabic, no Mohammed images; India, no sex and
>> kissing; Dutch and German, the full Monty with no censorship
>> at all. Whatever.
>>
>>
>> The sum of all human knowledge! Filtered by default to what
>> we think local prejudices are! And never mind that pesky Neutral
>> Point Of View.
>
> No, not filtered according to what *we* think, but filtered according to what the local editor community in that project think is appropriate to their cultural context.
>

I guess in most local editor communities the consensus about this is
simply not achievable, as long as the entire project is POV and this
is our real problem with implementing any kind of soft-semi but still
cenzorship. It simply touches your personal cultural contex, which is
different for devoted catholic or devoted musilm or the non-religous
person. Moreover if it comes to pictures we are saying about Wikimedia
Commons which is by default global. In fact English Wikipedia is quite
global project as well... Each such person thinks the the general
cenzorship rules should follow his/her cultural context. But the NPOV
idea is that Wikipedia content should not be affected by POV coming
form this or another cultural context, which let contribute to it no
matter of your cultural contex, as long as you are able to accept
having in Wikipedia all other's people POV mixed together in NPOV
style.

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