[Foundation-l] Minors and sexual explicit stuff

private musings thepmaccount at gmail.com
Mon Nov 16 01:11:11 UTC 2009


I should add that if folk are interested in the english wikipedia, and have
any ideas / comments etc. in this area, I kicked this off here;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Child_Protection

cheers,

Peter,
PM.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Brian J Mingus
<Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>wrote:

> 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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