[Foundation-l] Call for referendum

[Kim Bruning]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 01:35:00PM -0700, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> *Please distribute widely*
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> *Call for referendum*:  The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the
> Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of
> the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image
> filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of
> images strictly for their own account.

This is false. Having participated: there are no questions asking
whether members of the community "support the creation of an opt-in
personal image filter".

Even if the question had been asked as stated, it has been rendered
moot by further discussion and collaboration.

==Summary of discussion so far==

(please help if you think I'm forgetting major points!)

A personal image filter -in itself- does not cause as much trouble as
you might think...

... however, finding and/or generating the meta-data required to make such
a filter work has some flaws. 
* The data may be open to attack
* Marking images may entail a POV value judgement 
* Marking images may require an impractically large amount of volunteer work

(
For completeness: In the discussion, A small number of people have also taken the opportunity to advocate actual censorship of wikipedia and wikimedia
commons; or have advocated the use of the (new) metadata in parental
filters or other censorship tools.
)

== Next steps ==

I suggest that we now concentrate on constructively discussing the
meta-data ecology; including viability, security, and practicality.

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning

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