[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

Thomas Morton morton.thomas at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 7 23:08:49 UTC 2012


On 7 Mar 2012, at 23:03, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 March 2012 22:41, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> WMF is looking to work together with lots of mainstream organisations, from
>> the British Museum to the Smithsonian. But this kind of curation of adult
>> content is an embarrassment for the Wikimedia Foundation, and a potential
>> embarrassment for all the institutions collaborating with Wikimedia. And
>> the German community, happy with its largely well curated content in German
>> Wikipedia, is hurting the Wikimedia Foundation as a whole by preventing it
>> from moving towards the mainstream of society.
>
>
> I think you have no grasp of just how far beyond merely "mainstream"
> Wikipedia is.
>

The answer being; Not much at all.

Tom



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