Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-11 Thread David Goodman
the key distinction is that a method for getting a list of files in a category is a good thing for many purposes, and is morally totally neutral. The ethical questions depend on what other people do with the list, and like all intellectual work, it can be used for ends any person might think

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread teun spaans
Dear Derk-jan, As for 1), I think youtube can be compared in populairity and size with wikipedia, and in videos surpasses commons. Youtube enables its visitors to tag videos as adult. see for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA22WSVlCZ4 kind regards, Teun Spaans On Sun, May 9, 2010 at

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:27 PM, teun spaans teun.spa...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Derk-jan, As for 1), I think youtube can be compared in populairity and size with wikipedia, and in videos surpasses commons. Youtube enables its visitors to tag videos as adult. I think there is a difference

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread David Goodman
Presumably you mean nude female breast, and then you are involved with exactly the nudity definition dilemma you allude to. If you mean nude or clothed, Every full or half length picture of a woman seen from the front or side contains a depiction of the female breast. As another consideration, If

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread K. Peachey
I've read most of the replies in this thread, And i think I should point out a few things out: * The omg tagging for any reason is censorship mentality is a needless, Yes we tag things presently *shock horror* look at the currently category system. * Omg adding this to Mediawiki will destroy

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: This message is CC'ed to other people who might wish to comment on this potential approach --- You asked for comments... Here is one we prepared earlier... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_censorship#ICRA In other words, we have been here, we have

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Jiří Hofman
I am afraid we will never be able to label our content properly. There will be no chance to keep NPOV regardless how implemented labels will be. Our content is free. If somebody needs labeled content he can label it himself in his own copy of Wikimedia projects. It is a bad idea. Let's not do

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Robert Rohde wrote: Personally, I tend to see ICRA labeling as just another kind of categorization, albeit one with definitions that were defined elsewhere. This is precisely and completely absolutely wrong. Labeling is enabling censorship. Labeling images is the worst kind of enablement of

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hart...@gmail.com wrote: This message is CC'ed to other people who might wish to comment on this potential approach --- Dear reader at FOSI, As a member of the Wikipedia community and the community that develops the software on which

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Sydney Poore
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hart...@gmail.com wrote: This message is CC'ed to other people who might wish to comment on this potential approach --- Dear reader at FOSI, As a member of

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread David Goodman
This is the first step towards censorship, and we should not take it. We have no experience or expertise to determine what content is suitable for particular users, or how content can be classified as such.Further, doing so is contrary to the basic principle that we do not perform original

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Mike Godwin
Greg Maxwell writes: At the same time, and I think we'll hear a similar message from the EFF and the ALA, I am opposed to these organized content labelling systems. These systems are primary censorship systems and are overwhelmingly used to subject third parties, often adults, to

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 May 2010 21:17, Marcus Buck m...@marcusbuck.org wrote: The tags applied should be clear and fact-based. So instead of tagging a page as containing pornography, which is entirely subjective, we should rather tag the page as contains a depiction of an erect penis or contains a depiction of

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 May 2010 21:28, Mikemoral mikemoral...@gmail.com wrote: By why censor Commons? Should educational material be freely viewed and, of course, be made free to read, use, etc. Well, yes. The apparent reason is that Fox News is making trouble. Categorisation, labeling, etc. won't fix that -

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Excirial
*That's true. But at the moment we have nothing to defend or excuse ourselves with. If we had decent tagging we could at least say: You don't want your pupils to see nude people? Add rule XYZ to your school's proxy servers and Wikipedia will be clean. You can even choose which content should be

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
This message was an attempt to gain information and spur discussion about the system in general, it's limits and effectiveness, not wether or not we should actually do it. I was trying to gather more information so that we can have an informed debate if it ever got to discussing about the

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Sue Gardner
Hi Derk-Jan, Thank you for starting this thread. There is obviously a range of options -- let's say, on a 10-point scale, ranging from 0 (do nothing but enforce existing policy) to 10 (completely purge everything that's potentially objectionable to anyone, anywhere). Somewhere on that continuum

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread stevertigo
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: This *HAS* been suggested before, and soundly defeated. Nothing has changed in this respect. I would heartfeltly ask that folks just quit trying to stuff this down the throat of a community that simply does not content labeling. I don't see

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Excirial
*That is why it was addressed to FOSI and cc'ed to some parties that might have clue about such systems. The copy to foundation-l was a courtesy message. You are welcome to discuss censorship and your opinion about it, but I would appreciate it even more if people actually talked about rating

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread David Goodman
I can think of other concerns. The main one is that of our competence to form judgements. On some things we can: though nudity would seem something obvious, deciding on the various degrees of it is not: I do not think we are likely to agree on whether any particular nude image is primarily

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: This message is CC'ed to other people who might wish to comment on this potential approach --- You asked for comments... Here is one we prepared earlier...

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Sue Gardner wrote: Hi Derk-Jan, Thank you for starting this thread. There is obviously a range of options -- let's say, on a 10-point scale, ranging from 0 (do nothing but enforce existing policy) to 10 (completely purge everything that's potentially objectionable to anyone, anywhere).

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread David Goodman
There is no general agreement here that any system of filtering for any purpose is ever necessary, and I think it is totally contrary to the entire general idea behind the the free culture movement. But people have liberty do do as they please with our content, and if someone wants to filter for