[Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

[Ray Saintonge]

On 10/09/11 7:12 AM, Ting Chen wrote:
> the text of the May resolution to this question is "... and that the
> feature be visible, clear and usable on all Wikimedia projects for both
> logged-in and logged-out readers", and on the current board meeting we
> decided to not ammend the original resolution.
>
>

This is certainly the most problematical part of the entire resolution.  
It leaves the impression that all negotiations are being held under the 
Sword of Damocles. That whatever happens can be overruled by force 
majeure or the tyranny of the majority.  Many projects have not 
encountered problems with objectionable images at all.  They are either 
too small or the scope of what they do would not bring them into contact 
with such problems.

Making clear that projects would be free to turn the feature on only 
when it became relevant to them would go a long way to relieving tensions.

Ray