On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Andreas K. <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My wife pointed me to this animation a couple of days ago: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22Donkey_punch%22_(animated).gif >> >> It is/was included (there is currently edit-warring about it) in the >> Donkey punch article in the English Wikipedia: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_punch >> >> This has been one of the most viewed articles in Wikipedia of late, with >> nearly 400,000 page views this last month. >> >> http://stats.grok.se/en/latest30/Donkey_punch >> >> Views? >> > > Speaking purely as an editor... > > I don't care if we had a majority of female editors. That image is just > awful as an encyclopedia illustration -- it's the kind of thing you see on > Tumblr or 4chan. > > Practically speaking, I doubt Commons will delete it, but I think people > who feel strongly should just comment on the Wikipedia talk page. > There is a discussion on the article talk page, as well as Jimbo's talk page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Seriously.3F The problem, Steven, is that established editors rarely show up on pages about topics like pornography or sexual slang -- perhaps because they don't want to have such article titles in their edit history -- and a small group of NOTCENSORED advocates is enough to keep these articles in a 4chan state. On both sides, it is always pretty much the same dozen editors or so who meet for another NOTCENSORED war. And usually the NOTCENSORED crowd win, unless Jimbo comes riding in on his white horse, as he did in the Pregnancy article. That's not a good system. Established and responsible editors beaver away on learned articles that get 30 views a day, which is all very well, but this article received 129,000 views in just one day last month. These articles are our calling cards, and our recruitment posters. For better or worse, they tell potential new editors out there what we are about. Andreas
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