Commons featured prominently in the Harris study, as well as the board resolution on controversial content.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Wikimedia_Study_of_Controversial_Content:_Part_Two http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content Andreas >________________________________ >From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> >To: Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]>; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List ><[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, 17 October 2011, 2:15 >Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content > >* Andreas Kolbe wrote: >>Personality conflicts aside, we're noting that non-sexual search terms >>in Commons can prominently return sexual images of varying explicitness, >>from mild nudity to hardcore, and that this is different from entering a >>sexual search term and finding that Google fails to filter some results. > >That is normal and expected with a full text search that does not filter >out "sexual" images. Even if you search for sexual content on Commons it >is normal and expected that you get results you would rather not get. It >is possible to largely avoid this by using, say, Google Image Search and >a site:commons.wikimedia.org constraint and the right SafeSearch setting >if you want for the simpler cases, but I would not want to search for, >say, "penis", on either site when unprepared for shock. I do not think >Commons is relevant to the Image Filter discussion, the image filter is >for things editors largely agree should be included in context, while on >Commons you lack context and editorial control. If there was a MediaWiki >extension that is good at emulating Google's SafeSearch, installing that >on Commons might be an acceptable idea, but there is not, and making one >would be rather expensive. >-- >Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[email protected] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de >Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de >25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ > > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
