[Foundation-l] Minors and sexual explicit stuff

[Brian J Mingus]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Wikipedia Review, 'tarantino' pointed out that on WMF projects,
> self-identified minors (in this case User:Juliancolton) are involved in
> routine maintenance stuff around sexually explicit images reasonably
> describable as porn (one example is 'Masturbating Amy.jpg').
>
>
> http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=27358&st=0&p=204846&#entry204846
>
> I think this is wrong on a number of levels - and I'd like to see better
> governance from the foundation in this area - I really feel that we need to
> talk about some child protection measures in some way - they're overdue.
>
> I'd really like to see the advisory board take a look at this issue - is
> there a formal way of suggesting or requesting their thoughts, or could I
> just ask here for a board member or community member with the advisory
> board's ear to raise this with them.
>
> best,
>
> Peter,
> PM.
>

Wikipedia is not porn.

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