Am 17.05.2011 15:26, schrieb Andreas Kolbe:
--- On *Tue, 17/5/11, Craig Franklin /<cr...@halo-17.net>/*wrote:
From: Craig Franklin <cr...@halo-17.net>
Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on
Wikimedia Commons
To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List"
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Date: Tuesday, 17 May, 2011, 12:54
I'm going to add my voice to the "yeah, that wasn't cool". To
give a bit of an anecdote, John Vandenberg and I were doing a
demonstration of Commons to some librarians and cultural curators
yesterday, and it was a bit of a rude shock seeing that particular
image on the frontpage. One of the more elderly contributors
remarked on it to me privately in a negative sense afterwards, all
I could do was look embarassed and say "Yes, it's a bit of a racy
image, isn't it. Can't imagine how anyone thought that would be a
good idea". That's probably one contributor who won't be beating
a path to our door in the future.
And, at the risk of editorialising here, those who are responding
to this criticism by claiming that we're asking for "censorship"
or that the freedom to plaster graphic images over the Commons
frontpage is a battle for liberty along the lines of the fight
against slavery or for universal suffrage... need to take an
aspirin and have a good lie down. Nobody is claiming that such
images are not within Commons' scope; they quite clearly are, just
like pictures of penises, medical procedures, and other images
that people might find unpleasant are. Should they be in scope
for the main page though? I don't think so, the same as a picture
of a genital piercing, Osama bin Laden's bloodied corpse, or other
pictures that could possibly cause innocent people to get in
trouble should be out of main page scope. As a community, I think
most of us are mature enough to apply a common sense test to these
things, and common sense would indicate that that image was likely
to be one that would cause needless offense to people and hurt the
project.
Sorry for your bad experience. In light of that, it is a bit galling
to note that the contributor of
the image says on his Commons user page,
Rule #1: Commons is Censored [1]
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3APotd%2F2011-05-16&action=historysubmit&diff=54418471&oldid=48204060>
Some of my works were also accepted by */Featured Pictures/*
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures>.
But who really cares about this subjective nonsense? I don't
(anymore). It is equivalent to a private organization controlled by
some divas and is not representable for the variety of images
currently available on Commons.
In short: /It is worth nothing and is total bullshit!/
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/http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Niabot/
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/The diva comment seems perceptive, though not in the way the
contributor meant it. It's/
/absurd that //we let art from someone with those views hurt the
efforts of those that //actually/
/believe in //this being an educational project. The tail wags the dog
here; the importance/
/of manga in the overall "sum of human knowledge" is actually minute./
/The Featured status of the image itself is under review in Commons;
the link is:/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/removal/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg#File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg
Andreas
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Nice canvassing. At least it brings topic back to the community.
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