On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:19 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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. > > Indeed. The video basically comes across as a threat to try to drum up > a moral panic against Wikimedia. I don't see it that way at all. The narration was calm and unsensational and a gentle pan across an image can hardly said to be grossly misrepresentative either. As for taking the images out of context of articles; well as they may be viewed on Commons with no context I don't see that as a valid point. Don't misunderstand me, I think our articles on sexual organs should have a photo and Commons is our repository for such. But I was somewhat taken aback by a few of the pics in that video... are we ever going to have an article called "gay facial"? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
