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

David Levy lifeisunfair at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 23:43:05 UTC 2011


I wrote:

> > Apart from the name (which the MediaWiki developers inexplicably
> > refused to change), the bad image list is entirely compliant with the
> > principle of neutrality (barring abuse by a particular project, which
> > I haven't observed).

MZMcBride replied:

> Not inexplicably: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14281#c10

Actually, that's precisely what I had in mind.  Maybe it's me, but I
found Tim's response rather bewildering.  It certainly isn't standard
procedure to forgo an accurate description in favor of nebulous social
commentary/parody, particularly when this proves controversial.

David Levy




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