MediaWiki serves more than the Wikimedia Foundation too. ~~Ebe123
On 11-10-11 4:42 PM, "Tobias Oelgarte" <tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 11.10.2011 17:42, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: > From: > Fae<f...@wikimedia.org.uk> >> We could also just delete them, unless someone > actually uses them in a sensible way in an article. :-) >> >> sincerely, >> > Kim Bruning > Not on Commons; being "objectionable" to some viewers and not > being > currently in use does not make a potentially educational image out > of > scope. I have seen many poorly worded deletion requests on Commons on > > the basis of a potentially useable image being "orphaned" rather than > it > being unrealistic to expect it to ever be used for an educational > > purpose. > > Fae > > > > > Agree with Fae; Commons is a general image > repository in its own right, serving a bigger audience than just the other > Wikimedia projects. > > So the fact is that Commons will contain controversial > images and that we have to curate them responsibly. > > Someone on Meta has > pointed out that Commons seems to list sexual image results for search terms > like cucumber, electric toothbrushes or pearl necklace way higher than a > corresponding Google search. See > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-October/006290.html > > > Andreas This might just be coincidence for special cases. I'm sure if you > search long enough you will find opposite examples as well. But wouldn't it > run against the intention of a search engine to rate down content by > "possibly offensive"? If you search for a cucumber you should expect to find > one. If the description is correct, you should find the most suitable images > first. But that should be based on the rating algorithm that works on the > description, not on the fact that content is/might be/could be > controversial. Implementing such a restriction for a search engine (by > default) would go against any principal and would be discrimination of > content. We should not do > this. nya~ _______________________________________________ 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
