Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-15 Thread Sarah Stierch
Thanks Steven - I appreciate that you fought the good fight and I'm disgusted that comments about T&A were some of the key reasons for this feature. While I've seen my fair share of anime videos (Tentacles and /all/ that involves) - It was an epic fail when I was looking up an image with my 6

Re: [Gendergap] [Commons-l] Fwd: Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-15 Thread Ryan Kaldari
So you're arguing that the woman is topless in order to conform to realistic portrayals of indigenous people? That's the biggest pile of bullshit I've heard in years. Every few months one of the usual suspects nominates porn to be featured on Commons and we have to go through the same circus-show

Re: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-15 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
I have forwarded this matter to the commons-l mailing list and there is a discussion happening on it there. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2011-May/thread.html Feel free to join the discussion , if interested. Re

Re: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-15 Thread Sarah Stierch
Image is more like it, not photo. A talented artist, just..not the most welcoming image when thinking about gender concerns and bringing women into Wikimedia..IMHO.. On 5/15/2011 10:03 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: Surely I'm not the only one who noticed this lovely gem of a photo of the day today.

[Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

2011-05-15 Thread Sarah Stierch
Surely I'm not the only one who noticed this lovely gem of a photo of the day today. In my work environment - NFWS. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Direct link to image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg I mean really? /facepalm This is th