Andre Engels a écrit:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:54:17 +0200, Anthere
anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
In case of all sensible images such as the autofellatio, it should be the project choice whether to display it or not. And I think the multiplication of complaints on the topic requires to think about a viable solution for all of us.
It IS the choice of the project. If you don't want the image on your project, don't add a link to it. And yes, people can add the link again, but then, they can upload the image again too, or re-insert a copyright violation, or whatever. I don't see the problem.
Andre Engels
No, it is not the choice of the project.
When editors start to complain noisily over and over and over that the pornographic pictures of the english wikipedia are spilling over their project, then there is a problem. And I think it is normal that I report it, because I think it is understandable that people are upset and ask that a solution is brought.
Add that this is done by a bot and at high speed, and add that it is NOT easy to revert a redirect to another project, and you have the seed of a crisis boiling.
When porn images were linked many times in the english project, due to vandalism, it resulted in some solution being proposed : no direct linking allowed (granted, there was also the issue of the copyright).
When wrong images are uploaded at high speed by anonymous editor, the solution is to allow image upload only to log-in editors.
These two solutions do not allow to entirely prevent vandalism, but they allow to slow down the speed of it.
Now, we have several projects, such as the french, the dutch, the spanish ones, which are victims of vandalism spree by a bot, which redirect pages to the english pornography. It is a vandalism difficult to revert. It is time consuming. And it is very upsetting to editors.
The question is "is it okay that several editors spent several hours running to remove pornographic images from other editors talk page or their main page ?"; Is it the best way to use people time ? what value do you give to people time when they spent 1 hour cleaning up the mess of a 5mn bot ?
Dunno, but when editors leave me a spanish desperate message on my talk page, when I see calls on the french pump to go for deletion of the english image, I just think there IS a problem.
I am not sure the solution of this problem is to make a general call on all pedias vandalised to go vote for the image deletion.