[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status - the image filter disguised under a new label

[Möller, Carsten]

I would like it the other way:
Why should some minorities force a worldwide project to obay their point of view regarding images or other controversial content?
Why should the german speaking community collect funds for this filtering and hiding project?
Every community is free to discuss which image is shown on a article by article basis.
And they have the option to use some tricks to show a certain image only after a second click, if they find that approbiate.

The German, Austrian and Swiss chapters would love to keep their share of the fundraiser in Europe and have a separate "eurocommons" without the sometimes funny attacks by english speaking users on some images. That would also avoid taxproblems on this side of the pond.
I think our financial stake is big enough.

Ist not the biblebelt or Hisbollah or Syria or Putin to dicte the rules.

Carsten Möller
Hamburg Germany


> 
> One thing I've never understood is why the Board wants to 
> allow the German
> Wikipedia community to dictate what will be done in Commons, English
> Wikipedia, and dozens of other projects that the German 
> community has no
> stake in.
> 
> If the German Wikipedia does not want the image filter, then 
> let them opt
> out. They genuinely need it less than most other projects ? 
> they serve a
> culturally homogeneous language region whose standards are very
> progressive, and they are generally more judicious in the way they use
> explicit content.
> 
> But it is not fair to say that other projects can't have the 
> image filter,
> just because the Germans don't want it, or need it.
> 
> German Wikipedia has Pending Changes, English Wikipedia 
> doesn't. Did we
> tell the Germans that because English Wikipedia gave Pending Changes a
> thumbs-down, it was verboten for the Germans to have it?
> 
> It's not the German community's place to dictate global WMF policy.
> 
> Andreas
> 


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