[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[Yann Forget]

2011/9/8 Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 05:35, Yann Forget <yannfo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> But we do peer review images after they have been uploaded on Commons
>> or Wikipedia.
>>
>> It seems that, 10 years after Wikipedia and its sisters have been
>> created, you still do not understand that there are wikis.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Yann
>>
> Yann, I yesterday looked at the Veganism article, only to find a
> photograph in the infobox, not of yummy tofu scramble as before, but a
> close-up of a woman's genitals, with a vibrator and what looked like a
> man's fingers. I clicked on it, and saw it was being hosted by the
> Wikimedia Foundation, uploaded from Flickr by the Flickr upload bot.

Actually we already have a list of "objectionable" images for blocking
this kind of vandalism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Bad_image_list
I am not sure a new tool is needed for that, unless you find the image
objectionable in itself, but this is another issue.

> Objecting to this isn't a question of being prudish or of censorship,
> or of being anti-wiki. But if we want to attract mature editors, women
> editors, editors from outside the majority cultures on Wikipedia, and
> serious readers, this kind of thing is obviously very off-putting. So
> we risk limiting our reach by not dealing with it.
>
> Sarah

Regards,

Yann