I think this is a great idea actually. Probably a good place to start would be the WikiProject: Sex page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_sexuality Commons would probably be (or should be) interested as well. Cheers DM On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Jiří Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > It is clear that much of sex-related multimedia stored in our project is of > a very low quality, not meeting our requirements and needs. Often, it > doesn't provide what we are looking for - high quality information. > > I propose to start a project which would encourage, by a form of contest > and rewards, high quality (that means technical quality, usefulness for > education, aesthetic value etc...) multimedia which could be used in our > projects. Such multimedia can easily replace current low quality content. > Once we will have multimedia excellently covering something particular, we > can easily reject anything else trying to cover the same. And nobody could > blame us for hosting bad images anymore. > > I understand that some people can say "we don't support porn" now. But this > won't be porn but information! Our projects must cover also sex-related > matters. We have to look for high quality multimedia for this area of > knowledge as well as for others. There are projects supporting taking > photographs of municipalities etc... Why not to use similar ways for > improving this? > > I don't propose intentionally how such a project should decide what exactly > the multimedia in the contest should depict nor how exactly the contest > should be arranged. I feel this should be defined by a broader community. I > only propose to use a new internet domain for this purpose in order to keep > not yet chosen materials out of our projects until they are awarded. > > Don't forget that sex-related articles are the most viewed ones in > Wikipedia. We need the high quality content in this field too, not to wait > until somebody uploads something which could be useful. Also a license and > personal rights are quite often an issue for sex-related multimedia. All > this can be solved and we could obtain the best sex-related multimedia among > all encyclopedias. > > Best regards, > Jiri > > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, David Goodman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > As for the link, showing these in greatly enlarged versions, without > > > the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a > > > strong bias. We've never engaged in that use of the material, nor > > > would we. If people want to take our material out of our encyclopedic > > > content and turn it into sexually-focused presentations, that is their > > > look-out. > > > > What if they aren't used in an encyclopedic context? > > > > PM says he highlighted 17 images [1]. > > > > Assuming Commons "Global File Links" is accurate then these images > > appear on 27 content pages in Wikipedias and Wikibooks (not counting > > User and Talk pages, etc.). However, two of the images account for 16 > > of the uses, and 10 of the 17 images are not used on any project at > > all. This is of course a largely anecdotal sample (and there is no > > reason to assume that PM's set is random), but my personal impression > > has been similar. It seems to like we have seen a rise in unused > > sexual imagery being stored at Commons. > > > > I'll happily defend the usefulness of sexual imagery in many of the > > places where it is used, but there are downsides to allowing such > > collections grow far beyond the applications we have for them. > > > > -Robert Rohde > > > > [1] > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Privatemusings/ImagesUsedInVideoPresentation > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > -- > > * > . > . > . ... > . M45 .. > M1 . > # . > * . . Jiri Hofman > . . Opiskelijankatu 38 B28 > . * Tampere > . ** 33720 > ¤. . Finland > **. * > . > . . . * > * . . . * . > . . > * . * > * . * > gsm: +358504661860 . . > +358504384197 * . > http://www.aldebaran.cz/~hofmanj <http://www.aldebaran.cz/%7Ehofmanj> > . > * > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
