[Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Sun May 9 02:09:38 UTC 2010


Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> --- On Sat, 8/5/10, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Then another idea is to keep on Commons only those pictures which are
>> non-controversial and suggest local project to keep their controversial 
>> pictures local? For example en Wikipedia keeps fair use pictures locally 
>> and it is OK. If for example nudity pictures is not a problem for Danish or > French or Svedish Wikipedias - they can keep them locally... and the> en-Wikipedia which is driven by anglo-saxon taboo of nudity can get rid of them...
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> This is an elegant idea that might be worth pursuing, at least as an interim solution.Projects could be given ample warning that certain media files will be deleted atsuch and such a date, and that if any project is interested in them, they should transfer them to their own project space. 
> Andreas
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Without even commenting the idea itself, I have to ask:
What in this context would you consider "ample
warning"? One year, two years, more, less?


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen




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