Samuel Klein wrote: > Marcus writes: > > >> I try to understand what happened... >> >> >> * Larry Sanger informs media about us alleging Wikimedia of hosting >> > porn. [unaffirmed] > > He just made a lot of noise, and some media picked it up. > > If you consider a false report to the FBI reasonably characterised as "just made a lot of noise", sure. > >> * The (conservative) TV station FOX reports about Wikimedia and >> contacts many important companies that have donated money for >> Wikimedia in the past whether they want to comment on the allegations. >> [affirmed] >> * The companies are contacting Wikimedia to ask what's going on. >> [unaffirmed] >> > > Mainly they contacted us to say "fyi, Fox wants to cause trouble". It > was clear what was going on. > > This is an important clarification, and I commend you for it.
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Marcus Buck <m...@marcusbuck.org> wrote: > > > >> We had discussions on sexual content before. I proposed to use a >> technical solution in which images are tagged with tags that give >> detailed information about the form of explicit content present... >> >> Creating a technical solution like that is the task of the foundation. >> The _real_ task of the foundation. >> > > Let's have a meaningful discussion about this over the coming weeks. > I'm not sure how I feel about this -- my reflex is to be opposed to > the idea of internal tagging beyond Categories -- but there's a lot of > momentum around the idea, and if the community decides it is the right > thing the do, the Foundation would certainly support creating such a > solution. > Not to disagree with your personal inclinations at all, I just want to clarify a point of fact. "Lot of momentum around the idea", is currently most persistently promoted by the same precise individual who began the "ethical breaching experiment" project on the English Wikiversity, and created the previous to last wiki-fracas. The suggestion has certainly been a perennial one, Uwe Kils and his Wiki-Vikings may have been the first one to down in flames. [[WP:TOBY]] (might still survive as a historical page, and as a warning to passersby. These kind of schemes no matter how they are flavored have always been soundly rejected by the community. I am like "Buridans ass" stuck between whether to refer to them as the "third rail", or a "lead balloon". If you however imply there is impetus to have anything of this sort implemented on the foundation side, my personal prediction would be that it would be a train wreck to make this current commons fracas look like a leisurely picnic by the Seine. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l