Ryan,
I feel the same way, and I keep wondering what I can do to help populate
Wikimedia Commons categories of artists. I feel quite proud of the list I
produced, and I uploaded a bunch of images to get it this long. I have been
fascinated by the stories of the women on the list and made two
On 05/23/2013 02:58 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:
How strange that people take the trouble to upload those!
I've been wondering about this myself. Why do people port collections of
images from Flickr CC to Commons in the first place? If someone really
needed a weird nude picture for an article,
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Joseph Reagle joseph.2...@reagle.orgwrote:
On 05/23/2013 02:58 PM, Jane Darnell wrote:
How strange that people take the trouble to upload those!
I've been wondering about this myself. Why do people port collections of
images from Flickr CC to Commons in the
Well I suppose that on some level the people who upload those images believe
them to be artistic in some way. After looking at most of the artist categories
of the 17th century, I have noticed that it's generally the tits-and-ass images
that find their way on to Wikipedia first. I myself have
When someone said how come no one makes a big deal about category:foo when
category:blahporn is always getting messed with!!
and i ended up nominating a ton of crappy flower photos for deletion.
It was pretty funny, and dear god there are some crappy flower photos. Why
have crappy photos. It's
Well you do realise that now you are an admin your days of browsing any
type of pr0n are behind you. ;)
You are right, no-one in their right mind would use Commons to search for
pr0n. I just did a search for big dick on Google, and there is one result
from a WMF project in the Top 100 results --
Well you do realise that now you are an admin your days of browsing any
type of pr0n are behind you. ;)
You are right, no-one in their right mind would use Commons to search for
pr0n. I just did a search for big dick on Google, and there is one result
from a WMF project in the Top 100 results --
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote:
Well you do realise that now you are an admin your days of browsing any
type of pr0n are behind you. ;)
You are right, no-one in their right mind would use Commons to search for
pr0n. I just did a search for big
Yes, I totally agree with the beer spitting part, and also wish you lots of
luck and patience with your adminship!
Most people don't realize that of the 15 million files on Commons, 99% of the
ones *not* linked into a sister project are pretty well unfindable unless
you happen to google the
I use Commons to look at bird pr0n (birds..like...real...birds...the one's
that fly and have feathers) and pinball machines. So whatever.
Confession: I have taken and uploaded one of those bird-porn photos:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cockatiels_mating.jpg
We still have one of
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