I should make the disclaimer that all of my opinions expressed on this list are as a community member rather than a WMF employee. I have no official involvement in the current study or any decision making power thereof. I just code donation banners :)
Ryan Kaldari On 7/26/10 2:14 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > I don't think using an illustration of Bukake rather than a photo is a > "failure of neutrality", but perhaps we'll have to agree to disagree on > that. Regardless, as a global project, we need to seriously consider > what steps we can take to accommodate cultures very different from our > own, while still retaining the openness and comprehensiveness that make > our project so successful as an educational resource and collaborative > project. If that means we let some people filter what they see on > Wikipedia, so be it. And if it means banning Goatse from the Main Page, > I'm not going to complain. Obviously we must defend Wikipedia against > real censorship threats (deleting religious imagery, whitewashing > political scandals, DMCA abuses, etc.), but I don't see anything > threatening about Mr. Harris evaluating the issues, or people discussing > ideas for filtering technology. I think we're pretty far away from the > edge of the "slippery slope", but if that changes, I'll be right there > with you defending the integrity of the project. > > Ryan Kaldari > > On 7/26/10 12:39 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> On 26 July 2010 20:08, Ryan Kaldari<rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> failure >> >> >>> offer filtering. Frankly, we're already filtering content, even on >>> en.wiki, but only according to a "default" Western/American POV. We use >>> line drawings instead of photos in articles on sex positions. >>> >>> >> And this was a defective compromise with pushers of the censored POV >> at the time, so using it as a reason for more is the begging the >> question fallacy. >> >> Wikimedia's bias is to NPOV and the sum of the world's knowledge. >> Deliberately restricting that by default is a violation, on the face >> of it. Apart from using past failures as justification for future >> failures, do you have a proposal to address the problem of prior >> default filtering as a failure of neutrality in a manner that shows >> understanding of why this is a problem? >> >> >> - d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l