[Foundation-l] Another board member statement

Stephen Bain stephen.bain at gmail.com
Tue May 11 15:13:38 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:05 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kat Walsh <kat at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> "Commons should not be a host for media that has very
>> little informational or educational value
>
> This is too broad. Confine the scope toward dealing with what does not
> belong, rather than trying to suggest that everything be purposed as
> stated above. "Prurient" and "exhibitionist" are terms which seem to
> adequately define what doesn't belong.

It is not too broad; Commons has always distinguished itself in this
way from general purpose photo/media hosting services like Flickr or
YouTube.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com



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