Just to note - many other projects feature the Commons picture and media of the day on their main pages. It would not just be Commons users who came upon this image; it would have been readers and visitors from several dozen other projects, many of whose languages are not includd in the image information, who were perhaps unexpectedly greeted by an image of stacked dead bodies with their morning cornflakes - and based on the discussion on Commons, being confronted with this deliberately and intentionally, and in a format that the majority of people cannot access or mitigate.
Risker/Anne On 9 May 2014 15:50, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Leigh: I don't want to cover that up, which is why I explicitly support > us > > having the video and other relevant images, and using them in a way that > > provides educational/editorial value. Yesterday, most viewers couldn't > have > > played the video the still linked to, because it was in a format > relatively > > few browsers support. Context for the image was only provided in 5 > > languages, whereas we run projects in 287 different languages. For any > > viewer who didn't speak one of those five languages and who couldn't play > > the video (and most viewers can't play the video,) the still wouldn't > have > > had the effect of serving as a shocking reminder of the events of the > > holocaust. It would've just been a grainy black and white stack of > corpses > > decontextualised from any meaning. > > > > > Kevin - can I ask, if the video were playable by many or most people, would > that make it acceptable to you? What proportion of Commons viewers (as > opposed to the number of languages supported by any Wikimedia project) need > to be able to read the explanation before the context issue is resolved? To > me, context and accessibility are really secondary questions that assume > the fundamental question of appropriateness has already been answered > positively. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
