--- On Fri, 5/15/09, David Goodman <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: David Goodman <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not
> the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 7:53 PM
> The argument against concealing or
> making it more difficult in any way
> to access material is that it inevitably amounts to
> censorship. In my
> youth, one could not receive publications--on any
> subject--through the
> mail from the Communist countries without signing a form
> that one had
> requested them; I remember doing this for photography
> magazines from
> Poland. For adult web sites today, one must click, and the
> click is
> recorded. Even though Wikipedia does not record views in
> an
> attributable manner, a log on the computer used to access
> it could do
> so.
> Further, a person looking at a sexual image now can say if
> challenged
> that it appeared by accident; if a setting had to be
> enabled, to see
> them, that wouldn't be possible.
>
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
That is true if the default is click-through. An opt-in click through feature
would not take the accidental argument away. There is certainly a way to
design such a feature to address the concerns you list. I believe the real
problem with such a feature is in content selection. There are always the
boderline cases and who puts in the work to sort it out, someone will unhappy
with the decisions (in both directions) and complaining about the management of
it all. And also the time delay factor, as things are being contstantly
changed. If we advertise that we have such a feature and people sign-up for it
and it is only 80% effective, we may suffer more loss of goodwill then if we
don't offer a "safe" option at all. Passively not meeting people's expectations
is much better outcome than actively setting their expectaions to a certaiin
level and then failing to meet them.
Birgitte SB
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