If we buy this contributions with a loss of liberty. Then yes. Nothing is as worthy as liberty.

Am 17.05.2011 10:22, schrieb Gnangarra:
Is this picture worth more than 137,000 news images,
Is this picture worth the loss of xontributions from GLAM organisations
Is this picture worth the cost of denying other contributors the opportunity to participate.

On 17 May 2011 16:16, Tobias Oelgarte <tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com <mailto:tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com>> wrote:

    Am 17.05.2011 02:34, schrieb Neil Kandalgaonkar:
    > On 5/16/11 8:21 PM, Cary Bass wrote:
    >> We need an active group of contributors who represent at the
    very least
    >> some cross-section of not only Commons contributors but of
    interested
    >> re-users of Commons content to actively monitor and maintain
    the POTD.
    >> This is not the first time that something inappropriate for
    Main Page
    >> content has appeared and I doubt it will be the last.
    > That is definitely a practical solution. POTD are scheduled long in
    > advance, so that could solve the problems here pretty quickly.
    The image
    > in question is, IMO, unambiguously inappropriate for Commons,
    and this
    > shouldn't have been a difficult debate.
    >
    > On the other hand it feels a bit wrong to me. In that case we're
    asking
    > groups that are relatively underrepresented in Wiki culture to
    take on
    > the role of policing. I feel like they ought to have some rights
    to a
    > welcoming environment as a baseline. That said, in a wiki
    context, it
    > seems to be impossible to achieve such baseline freedoms, as
    long as the
    > offenders have large amounts of free time.
    >
    > So some people are going to have to make the sacrifices to
    change the
    > culture.
    >
    > Another worry: if there's a "quality control board", officially or
    > unofficially, they can start to take that role too seriously or
    become
    > captured by various radical factions. But I guess we have to
    take that
    > chance.
    >
    >
    Another board for decisions? Just leave the communities alone.
    They can
    handle it very well on their own. Any board i know failed in so many
    points. An good example from the German Wikipedia is the
    "Schiedsgericht". This is the last call if some users can't be stopped
    from offending each other. But this board isn't trusted at all and
    constantly breaks down. Just because it is seen as needless.

    What im seeing here is the construction of an government which isn't
    even democratic, getting very close to a dictatorship. Or as we
    said in
    the GDR: One party, elected by itself.

    Tobias

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