Hi Toby - Sorry to be a n00b but, can you explain what you mean by "refactoring this category according to the principle of least surprise?"
For anyone else - if you find an image that has been uploaded by a Flickr bot, and the Flickr account has been deleted what do you do? I notice a large portion of images like this are often snapshot uneducational photos (here is an example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Labace_%2824%29.jpg) I was going to nominate it for just being out of scope because Commons is not a repository for snapshots. ;) Asking questions like this on Commons-L isn't very pleasant, so thanks for helping! Thanks, Sarah On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Toby Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundation<http://www.glamwiki.org> Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch> and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.* ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sarahstierch.com/
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