One point that the apologists seem to be missing is that the Wikimedia Foundation assumes and expects that sometimes minors have administrator rights on the Wikimedia projects. This then gives them the responsibility of deciding what is suitable content or not for the project. Likewise, the Foundation seems to assume and expect that there will be some risk of the child interacting on very serious issues with grown adults whose agenda may indeed be to exploit the minor. But, the response is...
Go fork yourself a new wiki, if you don't like it. And the Foundation powers that be wonder why critics sometimes skip to more "dramatic" forms of protest, without "going through the proper channels". Jimmy Wales can probably tell you about this very phenomenon when I didn't "go through proper channels" to advocate against his company hosting a "Spanking Art" Wikia site, complete with photos and drawings of young girls in pigtails being showcased in a highly exploitative and abusive setting. Wikia wanted more time to try to "work things out" with the creators of that environment, while I preferred that it be taken down in 48 hours, regardless of conversations with the creators. Oh well, I guess I'll just go make myself my own wiki. I'm working on an article about "Consumer economy", if anyone is interested in helping out and earning $15: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Talk:Consumer_economy Greg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
