I don't know whether other wikipedias have similar policies, but on
the Italian Wikipedia an article which is just a machine translation
can be speedy deleted according to our policies. The reason is that
machine translations are not good enough and the autotranslated text
is too difficult to
A child seeing such a page will ordinarily go instead to something
they understand. Unless we're talking about teen-agers.
I see this as an excellent example of the slippery slope we would be
in if we did anything targeted at facilitating censorship, especially
considering the author of the book
Wikipedia images and pages normally have descriptive titles. If you want to
prevent children seeing bad stuff on the internet, set up a web blocker.
Mind you, if you want to prevent children seeing bad stuff on the internet,
best to raise them in an Amish village.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:05 PM,
Hoi,
Children in Romania know what to expect of a
pizdăhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pizd%C4%83#Romanian,
children in Indonesia know it for the
tempikhttp://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=tempikaction=editredlink=1..
They are both descriptive and you do not know at all that you want to
look
David Goodman wrote:
A child seeing such a page will ordinarily go instead to something
they understand. Unless we're talking about teen-agers.
I see this as an excellent example of the slippery slope
Would that be the slippery slope to the thin end of the wedge perchance?
we would be
in
On 7/24/10 9:45 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
In other words cultural context is usually just an
excuse for POV pushing of various kinds.
Actually, I think the opposite is true. Right now we impose our
arbitrary Western moral standards on the rest of the world, and because
those standards are
On 26 July 2010 20:08, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
failure
offer filtering. Frankly, we're already filtering content, even on
en.wiki, but only according to a default Western/American POV. We use
line drawings instead of photos in articles on sex positions.
And this was a
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 7/24/10 9:45 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
In other words cultural context is usually just an
excuse for POV pushing of various kinds.
Actually, I think the opposite is true. Right now we impose our
arbitrary Western
On 26 July 2010 20:40, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
If photos of Tienanmen protests are
forbidden in China, we should remove them for population from China.
I certainly hope you're saying this as an attempt at reductio ad absurdum.
- d.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:43 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 July 2010 20:40, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
If photos of Tienanmen protests are
forbidden in China, we should remove them for population from China.
I certainly hope you're saying this as an attempt at
I don't think using an illustration of Bukake rather than a photo is a
failure of neutrality, but perhaps we'll have to agree to disagree on
that. Regardless, as a global project, we need to seriously consider
what steps we can take to accommodate cultures very different from our
own, while
I should make the disclaimer that all of my opinions expressed on this
list are as a community member rather than a WMF employee. I have no
official involvement in the current study or any decision making power
thereof. I just code donation banners :)
Ryan Kaldari
On 7/26/10 2:14 PM, Ryan
On 26 July 2010 22:14, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't see anything
threatening about Mr. Harris evaluating the issues,
As has been pointed out several times already, the presumption that
there is a case to answer. (#5 on the original board resolution.)
I note also that
Hi SJ:
I've been thinking about your note. Maybe programmes would
be a better word than policies. I hope here to put my note in a
pro-active frame. In fact there are lots of things that we could do,
but here is where it would be nice to know more about who we
are!
You and I already discussed
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:43 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 July 2010 20:40, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
If photos of Tienanmen protests are
forbidden in China, we should remove them for
Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to add to this that I think the worst part of this idea
is the assumption that other languages should take articles from
en.wp.
The idea is that most of en.wp's articles are well-enough written, and
written in accord with NPOV to a
The idea is that most of en.wp's articles are well-enough written, and
written in accord with NPOV to a sufficient degree to overcome any
such criticism of 'imperial encyclopedism.' - really? It's a) not
particularly well-written, mostly and b) referenced overwhelmingly to
English-language
really? It's a) not
particularly well-written, mostly and b) referenced overwhelmingly to
English-language sources, most of which are, you guessed it.. Western in
nature.
Very much true. Now English Wikipedians want some one to translate and use
the exact copy of en:wp in all other
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