> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> > wrote: >> It comes down to the size of the tent. If you want students in Saudi >> Arabia to be able to use Wikipedia it has to be structured one way. If >> you want to please gay college students you structure it another way. > [snip] > > The deletions performed would not have done even a bit of good making > Wikipedia more useful to students in Saudi Arabia. For that we must > first start with > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy. > > In the access to wikipedia to the general public was inhibited due to > a commercially available album cover. I expect that Chinia is still > very unhappy with our coverage of human rights and other political and > historical subjects. > > Even in US schools, I can't believe that ones who would inhibit > schools over risqué drawings from the 1800s sourced from the US > library of congress would suddenly permit access while we still > detailed anatomical photographs. > > (As far as I can tell Jimmy's "almost complete cleanup" included only > one of the almost 300 human penis pictures â is anyone actually > proposing we remove all the anatomical images?) > > It's important to state a goalâ it might be arguable to continue > deleting educational images if it would cause Wikipedia to be usable > in more places... but without a stated goal all we could hope to do is > cause the harm without enjoying the benefit. >
We can make choices and commit to those choices, if we chose. Probably creation of a children's fork, a PRC fork, and a fundamentalist Muslim fork would solve the main problems. I can't see it happening, but that would be a solution. It's no different from a car company putting out several different models. Fred Bauder _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
