> --- On Mon, 16/5/11, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Fred Bauder <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia >> Commons >> To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, 16 May, 2011, 14:46 >> The image is derivative, see >> >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:1672_G%C3%A9rard_de_Lairesse_-_Allegory_of_the_Freedom_of_Trade.jpg >> >> but its theme of editorial freedom is culturally >> significant, at least to >> the Wikimedia movement. > > Fred, > > I am not sure I follow you correctly here, so do tell me if I > misunderstood. > > You are (perhaps ironically) suggesting that Niabot's original > manga-style > artwork encapsulates a value that's important to the Wikimedia movement. > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:On_the_edge_-_free_world_version.jpg > > If so, how about featuring an undiscovered garage band's post-punk song > celebrating, say, freedom from censorship, on the Commons main page? > Would we > do this, as an educational illustration of the post-punk/protest > song/garage band cultures? > > Is it the purpose of the Commons main page to inform the world at large > about the musical and artistic talent within the Wikimedia community? > > I thought our mission was providing educational material on such things > as > have *already* attracted the attention of educators. > > Andreas >
Surprisingly, you do misunderstand. The image is a modern allegory of liberty, see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:1672_G%C3%A9rard_de_Lairesse_-_Allegory_of_the_Freedom_of_Trade.jpg Bourgeois liberty. The notion that individual liberty trumps imposition of social norms. Some may disagree, but it is a value of the Wikimedia movement, often expressed in the slogan "Wikipedia is not censored!". Fred _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
