On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Andreas K. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > >> > The English Wikipedia community, like any other, has always contained a >> wide spectrum of opinion on such matters. We have seen this in the past, >> with long discussions about contentious cases like the goatse image, or the >> Katzouras photos. That is unlikely to ever change. >> > >> > But we do also subscribe to the principle of least astonishment. If the >> average reader finds our image choices odd, or unexpectedly and needlessly >> offensive, then we alienate a large part of our target audience, and may >> indeed only attract an unnecessarily limited demographic as contributors. >> > >> >> You completely and utterly misrepresent what the principle of least >> astonishment is supposed to address. It is a matter of where people >> should be directed, when there are confliting disambiguation issues. >> It doesn't refer to content issues in the slightest. Period. We don't >> say you can read an article about X and not see pictures of X. That is >> ridiculous. >> > > > The principle of least astonishment is mentioned thrice in the board > resolution on controversial content: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content > > "We support the principle of least astonishment: content on Wikimedia > projects should be presented to readers in such a way as to respect their > expectations of what any page or feature might contain" > > Signpost coverage: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-06-06/News_and_notes#Board_resolutions_on_controversial_content_and_images_of_identifiable_people >
Yes, but that is not proof of what we as a community understand the principle to mean, it means the board is on crack. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
