Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-13 Thread carolmooredc
Anyway they can italic or bold this Phrase: in a private place or situation without permission. ?? On 9/12/2011 10:53 AM, Sydney Poore wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com mailto:sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I have no clue how I missed this

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sydney Poore
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: I have no clue how I missed this (and perhaps it's been posted before?) http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Images_of_identifiable_people Perhaps we can lend a hand to assist in this? -Sarah Yes, the

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
IMO, the Commons policy needs to be tweaked to to ensure that the person giving consent for the image to be taken understands that it will be uploaded with a free license, and what that means. Yes, there doesn't really seem to be an appropriate representation about this. I also think it

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Fred Bauder
+1. There are hundreds of photographs of women sunbathing, walking down the street, etc. It makes me severely uncomfortable that we have people taking photographs of people in a voyeuristic manner uploading images to Commons, Flickr, whatever. Just because someone (of any gender) lays on

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
They don't appear to be in any questionable or exploitative situations. I would like to think you did ask their verbal permission or informed them that they represent their town on Wikipedia. I have learned to avoid people in images without strict permission after having an anthropologist as a

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread phoebe ayers
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: I have no clue how I missed this (and perhaps it's been posted before?)

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
Sydney -- all good ideas, for sure! The resolution was intended as a (re)focusing device, as you note; and there is still lots of work to be done. One of the areas is making sure that all wikis have a similar policy. Would it help to put together a page on meta to coordinate this? I'm not

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Brandon Harris
On 9/12/11 3:58 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: I'm not sure if we're ready to move it to meta yet, I do wish we had a more private place to develop this. It's a rather sensitive topic for folks. Perhaps a google doc or...? To be honest, I think that working as publicly as possible is

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah Stierch
To be honest, I think that working as publicly as possible is only good, in the long run, for what needs to happen. Transparency is super important. I suppose it's paranoia that makes me sensitive about making it so transparent in an infant stage. But, if we have to place it

Re: [Gendergap] Resolution:Images of identifiable people

2011-09-12 Thread phoebe ayers
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: Sydney -- all good ideas, for sure! The resolution was intended as a (re)focusing device, as you note; and there is still lots of work to be done. One of the areas is making sure that all wikis have a similar