I've made a start on refactoring this category according to the principle of least surprise. Feel free to do this whenever you notice a "surprising" image in a mundane category.
Regarding consent, if any of the identifiable women are in private locations, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:PEOPLE<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:High-heeled_shoes>applies, and the uploader should state that permission was obtained to take & publish the image. If this has not been done, please either contact the uploader or propose deletion. Toby Hudson / 99of9 On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Sydney Poore <[email protected]> wrote: > Category:High-heeled shoes is an excellent example of the current problem > WMF projects are having with creating and disseminating content that is > unbiased. > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:High-heeled_shoes > > This category is different that most all the other categories about > footwear because it contains many images that are not primarily examples of > high-heeled shoes. Most other categories about footwear contain mostly > images of shoes or the lower leg(s) with a shoe or shoes. > > The number of images in Category:High-heeled shoes is higher than most > categories about footwear. Approximately one- third of the images are of > full body shots of attractive females who are wearing high heeled shoes, and > a significant number of them are nude or posed in sexually provocative > positions. > > There are random women who are wearing shoes and are mixed in with the > porn-stars and strip-tease dancers. These women are being objectified and > sexualized without their consent because of the way the the images are > displayed in the category. See Wikipedia article on Sexualization > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexualization for a description of the term. > > In each language that has Wikipedia articles about high-heeled shoes, the > content is about a type of footwear, so the links in the articles that lead > to commons are directing people to nudity or sexual content that they would > not anticipate. There are other problems with some of the images, including > unclear consent for the image to be uploaded by the subject of the image. > > I see this category as a concrete example of systemic bias coming from > having a male dominated editing community. > > Leather boots is only other category that I found that also has a large > number of images of people. It also contain a disproportionate number of > images of women who are nude or in sexually provocative poses. > > I think that it is important to continue to talk about these issues in the > hope that more people with became educated about the problems with with our > current methods to collect, categorize, and disseminate content. > > Sydney Poore > User:FloNight > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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