Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Fae
Hi Ting, Thanks for explaining the position of the board in your own words. I appreciate the board is listening. I am concerned that you state that the board is acting from belief, I recommend you consider how this can move to proposing a strategy based on facts and non-controversial analysis. I

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Sue Gardner wrote: Please read Ting's note carefully. The Board is asking me to work with the community to develop a solution that meets the original requirements as laid out in its resolution. It is asking me to do something. But it is not asking me to do the specific thing that has been

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote: Since no one has explicitly come out and said exactly what the issue is here, I'll ask: *What exactly is harmful about an opt-in filter? *If it's opt-in, then you have the choice to not even enable it if you

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 09:19:40AM -0700, Sue Gardner wrote: The Board is hoping there is a solution that will 1) enable readers to easily hide images they don't want to see, as laid out in the Board's resolution [1], while 2) being generally acceptable to editors. Maybe this will not be

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
I'm all for it, too. Bob On 10/9/2011 6:31 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 09:19:40AM -0700, Sue Gardner wrote: The Board is hoping there is a solution that will 1) enable readers to easily hide images they don't want to see, as laid out in the Board's resolution [1], while 2)

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 09:19:40AM -0700, Sue Gardner wrote: The Board is hoping there is a solution that will 1) enable readers to easily hide images they don't want to see, as laid out in the Board's resolution [1],

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread David Levy
Sue Gardner wrote: The Board is hoping there is a solution that will 1) enable readers to easily hide images they don't want to see, as laid out in the Board's resolution [1], while 2) being generally acceptable to editors. Maybe this will not be possible, but it's the goal. As I've noted in

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: David Gerard wrote: On 9 October 2011 14:18, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 October 2011 13:55, Ting Chen tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: The majority of editors who responded to the referendum are not opposed

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:13 AM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote: Sue Gardner wrote: The Board is hoping there is a solution that will 1) enable readers to easily hide images they don't want to see, as laid out in the Board's resolution [1], while 2) being generally acceptable to

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread rupert THURNER
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 14:55, Ting Chen tc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear Wikimedia community, First, I want to thank the 24,000 editors who participated in the Wikimedia Foundation's referendum on the proposed personal image hiding feature. We are particularly grateful to the nearly seven

Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

2011-10-09 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:47 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:10 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: David Gerard wrote: On 9 October 2011 14:18, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 October 2011 13:55, Ting Chen tc...@wikimedia.org wrote:

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