On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:35, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > Seeking outside opinions, and outreach efforts to bring more people into our > Communities are high on my list of priorities because WMF contributor base > is too homogeneous for me to be comfortable that our community members are > making neutral decisions.
Agreed. So, how can we do that? On ad hoc basis and by lying the community that it's about referendum or a bit more organized? > 1) We have people speaking up publicly saying that they are not able to edit > from some locations because of the presence of some images on our Projects. > Numerous editors have told me this in private, too. 2) We regularly have > people put up "controversial content" for deletion because they find it > offensive or out of scope. 3) Image filters are commonly available on other > internet website, often by default. That doesn't give a picture of how deep that problem is. Without harder evidences, I could freely conclude that it's just about particular portion of US society which is anyway positioned far from our ideals, so not worthy of efforts. (Similarly to that, I have no intention to work ma making Wikipedia closer to Serbian morons of any kind. The necessary prerequisite for using internet and Wikipedia is not to be a moron.) > The idea of offering imagine filters on WMF project is much more > controversial than it is on other internet websites. So, I I think that it > is fair to suggest that we examine why we are having conflicts over this > topic when other website don't. One possible reason is that our base of > editors is different from other websites. If that is true, then I think we > need to allow for this difference when we make features to appeal to > readers. I don't see that as a problem and something unusual. We are community driven and we don't depend on Rupert Murdoch et al., unlike any other commercial sites. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l