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

[Andreas Kolbe]

From: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 22:40
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content - Commons searches

> What you are all missing here is that commons is a service site, not a
> repository
> for the public to go into without knowing it caters to different
> cultures than their
> own. Period.


Google is a service site too, and a better-designed one than Commons. 

If I search for cream pie, and I want to find cakes, I leave safe search on:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=creampie&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbm=isch&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1066&bih=638&uss=1#um=1&hl=en&safe=active&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=cream+pie&pbx=1&oq=cream+pie&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=3991l3991l0l6210l1l1l0l0l0l0l181l181l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=3cd2d48ee7786b1a&biw=1066&bih=638


If I search for cream pie and want to find porn, I switch safe search off:


http://www.google.co.uk/search?um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&q=cream+pie&pbx=1&oq=cream+pie&aq=f&aqi=&gs_upl=3991l3991l0l6210l1l1l0l0l0l0l181l181l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1066&bih=638&uss=1


I know Google caters to both "cultures", but I can decide beforehand what it will show me. 


That is good service.

Andreas