Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-04 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
The huge problem here seems to be that the argument is being framed in terms of editorial judgement, but the means seems to the thinking public aimed at sidestepping editorial judgement by supposedly giving a viewing public more choice, but infact enabling gatekeepers when they want to keep you

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-03 Thread Ev. Jorgen.
(Not because they actually do want it but don't have the resources. Not because it is hard for an external body to do but might be easier for the WMF to do. No, those aren't possible at all.) Well, given that an image filter is a technically easy proposition, no, its not because of lack of

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-02 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 09/30/11 11:15 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 19:59, Sue Gardnersgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: That's what I'm used to, as a Canadian -- it's normal for me to listen to minorities and find ways to incorporate their perspectives into mine. Most importantly, you are a manger

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-02 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 09/30/11 10:59 AM, Sue Gardner wrote: On 30 September 2011 09:15, Milos Rancicmill...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Riskerrisker...@gmail.com wrote: Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was talking about in her blog. It is aggressive, it is

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-02 Thread Tom Morris
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:24, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and what not. It should not be our job to censor our own content. The strongest

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-02 Thread Theo10011
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:24, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and what not.

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-02 Thread MZMcBride
Tom Morris wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:24, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and what not. It should not be our job to censor our own content. The

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-01 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya Bishakha On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I have said, it is a matter of perspective how you view them. But if we go by the assumption that editorial judgement is a separate thing,

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-01 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: If you want to make a valid counterargument, say that you are worried that some censorious ISPs and countries might use our category definitions as a starting point for a bolt-on censorship system that restricts access

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-01 Thread David Levy
Andreas Kolbe wrote: We'd still be in good company, as all other major websites, including Google, YouTube and Flickr, use equivalent systems, systems that are widely accepted. I'm going to simply copy and paste one of my earlier replies (from a different thread): Websites like Flickr (an

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-01 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Saturday, 1 October, 2011, 13:42 Andreas Kolbe wrote: We'd still be in good company, as all other major websites, including

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-01 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: On 30 September 2011 13:40, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: First attempt at labeling content was made by Uwe Kils, and his class of students collectively logging as Vikings or something of the sort tagged content not suitable for teenst. Jimbo banned

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-01 Thread David Levy
MZMcBride wrote: I'd forgotten all about Toby. That was largely a joke, wasn't it? Do not try to define Toby. Toby might be a joke or he might be serious. Toby might be watching over us right now or he might be a bowl of porridge. Toby might be windmills or he might be giants. Don't fight

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-01 Thread Phil Nash
David Levy wrote: MZMcBride wrote: I'd forgotten all about Toby. That was largely a joke, wasn't it? Do not try to define Toby. Toby might be a joke or he might be serious. Toby might be watching over us right now or he might be a bowl of porridge. Toby might be windmills or he might

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-10-01 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 09/30/11 9:41 AM, Theo10011 wrote: I have never said, *ever*, led on I don't think girls should not be educated about sexuality. I also grew up in a time when I had to find sexual content by way of a pile of Playboys in my cousins bathroom, watching MTV, and stealing my sisters copy of

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread David Gerard
On 30 September 2011 01:56, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://achimraschka.blogspot.com/2011/09/story-about-vulva-picture-open-letter.html He's the primary author of [[:de:Vulva]], and Sue called him all

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread church.of.emacs.ml
On 09/29/2011 04:37 PM, Dirk Franke wrote: For anybody interested: I wrote a blog-post full of disagreement :-) http://asinliberty.blogspot.com/2011/09/sorry-sue-gardner-but-image-filter.html So basically, we find that there are two different, somewhat incompatible definitions of Wikipedia:

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:45 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: The complete absence of mentioning the de:wp poll that was 85% against any imposed filter is just *weird*. The intro and footer of Sue's post say: The purpose of this post is not to talk specifically about the referendum

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Béria Lima
I'll go by pieces in your mail Erik. *The intro and footer of Sue's post say: The purpose of this post is not to talk specifically about the referendum results or the image hiding feature (...) So it's perhaps not surprising that she doesn't mention the de.wp poll regarding the filter in a

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread WereSpielChequers
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:56:02 -0700 From: phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Overall, I think Sue's post was an effort to move the conversation away from thinking of this issue purely in the terms of the debate as it's taken place so far. I think that's a very worthwhile thing to do. I would also

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:45 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: The complete absence of mentioning the de:wp poll that was 85% against any imposed filter is just *weird*. The intro and footer of Sue's post say: The purpose of this post is not to talk specifically

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Overall, I think Sue's post was an effort to move the conversation away from thinking of this issue purely in the terms of the debate as it's taken place so

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread MZMcBride
Nathan wrote: Erik, if you really want to change the focus of the debate, suggest to Sue and the board that they make a commitment: that an image filter won't be imposed on the projects against strong majority opposition in the contributing community. Then you can move on to the hard work of

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Sorry if this is *too* condensed, but here is one summary of this issue... First attempt at labeling content was made by Uwe Kils, and his class of students collectively logging as Vikings or something of the sort tagged content not suitable for teenst. Jimbo banned them, but an accomodation was

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Nathan wrote: Erik, if you really want to change the focus of the debate, suggest to Sue and the board that they make a commitment: that an image filter won't be imposed on the projects against strong majority opposition in

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
(As example: the only 2 girls who commented here - phoebe and me - are in opposite sides. ...) -*B?ria Lima* Technically, you, Sarah Stierch, Phoebe, and Sue have all commented -- at least 4 women, not just 2. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 15:54, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: (As example: the only 2 girls who commented here - phoebe and me - are in opposite sides. ...) -*B?ria Lima* Technically, you, Sarah Stierch, Phoebe, and Sue have all commented -- at least 4 women, not just 2.

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Up to now, all females from US (four of them) are in favor of filter (though, Sarah just tactically) and the only one not from US (Brazil/Portugal) is against. Hope we're not going to call this a poll. :) Cheers Bishakha

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Sarah Stierch
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: One more, but forgot her name and too lazy to search. German females in discussion on German Wikipedia should be also checked. Up to now, all females from US (four of them) are in favor of filter (though, Sarah just

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Risker
On 30 September 2011 10:12, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: snip Up to now, all females from US (four of them) are in favor of filter (though, Sarah just tactically) and the only one not from US (Brazil/Portugal) is against. Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 September 2011 10:12, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: snip Up to now, all females from US (four of them) are in favor of filter (though, Sarah just tactically) and the only one not from US (Brazil/Portugal) is

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Oliver Koslowski
Am 30.09.2011 16:24, schrieb Risker: The implication of your post is if you're a woman from the US, your opinion is invalid. Your post here did not further the discussion in any way, and I politely ask you to refrain from making such posts in the future. Weird. I've only seen a post where

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Risker
On 30 September 2011 10:44, Oliver Koslowski o@t-online.de wrote: Am 30.09.2011 16:24, schrieb Risker: The implication of your post is if you're a woman from the US, your opinion is invalid. Your post here did not further the discussion in any way, and I politely ask you to refrain

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Oliver Koslowski
Am 30.09.2011 16:46, schrieb Risker: My question to you is why anyone would want to participate in a discussion where their opinions are going to be classified by their sex or their geographic location rather than their input. There's absolutely no harm in coming to a finding that, say, 80% of

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Risker
On 30 September 2011 10:36, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 September 2011 10:12, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: snip Up to now, all females from US (four of them) are in favor of filter (though,

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I have to respectfully disagree with you on this point, Nathan. The blog post was about two basic issues: *How Wiki[mp]edians are interacting with each other , and *The role of editorial judgment in selecting which content

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread David Gerard
On 30 September 2011 13:40, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: First attempt at labeling content was made by Uwe Kils, and his class of students collectively logging as Vikings or something of the sort tagged content not suitable for teenst. Jimbo banned them, but an

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Andreas Kolbe
--- On Fri, 30/9/11, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: From: Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, 30 September, 2011, 0:28 On 9/28/11 11

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
I must confess I completely fail to understand how the discussions in this thread, especially the last several dozens or so posts, advance our mission. Cheers Yaroslav ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:23, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote: One more, but forgot her name and too lazy to search. German females in discussion on German Wikipedia should be also checked. Up to now, all females from US (four of them) are in favor of filter (though, Sarah just

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Sarah Stierch
want, Stierch On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Fri, 30/9/11, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: From: Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 30.09.2011 17:49, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: --- On Fri, 30/9/11, Ryan Kaldarirkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: From: Ryan Kaldarirkald...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Sarah Stierch
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: As a member of one feminist organization, I understand dominant position among feminists toward pornography. It's generally personal (thus, not an ideological position), but as the main stream pornography is male-centric

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was talking about in her blog. It is aggressive, it is alienating, and it is intimidating to others who may have useful and progressive ideas but are repeatedly seeing

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Risker
On 30 September 2011 12:15, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was talking about in her blog. It is aggressive, it is alienating, and it is intimidating to

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:29, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I think there is much that can be discussed on the range of topic areas covered in this thread. But we must keep in mind that the views expressed here are those of the individuals, and there is absolutely insufficient information

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Sue Gardner
On 30 September 2011 03:47, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Re David's point that The trouble with responding on the blog is that responses seem to be being arbitrarily filtered. I can relate to that, it isn't just an annoying delay, there are posts which have gone up with

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Theo10011
Hi Sarah On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: As a member of one feminist organization, I understand dominant position among feminists toward pornography. It's generally

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Andreas Kolbe
-online.de Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, 30 September, 2011, 16:02 Am 30.09.2011 16:46, schrieb Risker: My question to you is why anyone would want to participate in a discussion

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Risker
On 30 September 2011 12:32, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:29, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I think there is much that can be discussed on the range of topic areas covered in this thread. But we must keep in mind that the views expressed here are

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was talking about in her blog. It is aggressive, it is alienating, and it is intimidating to

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Risker
On 30 September 2011 12:06, Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelga...@googlemail.comwrote: Am 30.09.2011 17:49, schrieb Andreas Kolbe: --- On Fri, 30/9/11, Ryan Kaldarirkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: From: Ryan Kaldarirkald...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:46, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have any reason to believe that a statistically significant number and percentage of female editors of the German Wikipedia are active participants in this mailing list? No, but there are German Wikipedians who could

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Sarah Stierch
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I have no idea about your personal stance, but correct me if I am wrong. Weren't you the one surprised to find an in your face photo of a vagina on an article about Vagina? You know where you said it was up-front and at the

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Andreas Kolbe
: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, 30 September, 2011, 0:28 On 9/28/11 11:30 PM, David Gerard wrote: This post appears mostly to be the tone argument: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
and, indeed, a little empathy. Andreas --- On Fri, 30/9/11, Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com wrote: From: Tobias Oelgartetobias.oelga...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters To: foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Theo10011
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was talking

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Achal Prabhala
On Friday 30 September 2011 10:54 PM, Theo10011 wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Bishakha Dattabishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Milos Rancicmill...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Riskerrisker...@gmail.com wrote: Milos, I believe

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Theo10011
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.comwrote: On Friday 30 September 2011 10:54 PM, Theo10011 wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Bishakha Dattabishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Milos Rancicmill...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Sue Gardner
On 30 September 2011 09:15, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was talking about in her blog. It is aggressive, it is alienating, and it is intimidating to others who

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Achal Prabhala
On Friday 30 September 2011 11:19 PM, Theo10011 wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.comwrote: On Friday 30 September 2011 10:54 PM, Theo10011 wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Bishakha Dattabishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 30 September 2011 18:24, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and what not. That is just completely untrue. The image filter will allow people to choose

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 19:59, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: I just want to point out quickly that I am not American, and my position on all these issues is actually a very Canadian one. Ray and Risker and other Canadians will recognize this. Canada doesn't really feel itself to

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Theo10011
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.comwrote: On Friday 30 September 2011 11:19 PM, Theo10011 wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.com wrote: How about an encyclopedia? Anywhere? Are you suggesting a rating system for an

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Achal Prabhala
On Friday 30 September 2011 11:47 PM, Theo10011 wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.comwrote: On Friday 30 September 2011 11:19 PM, Theo10011 wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Achal Prabhalaaprabh...@gmail.com wrote: How about an encyclopedia?

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Theo10011
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: On 30 September 2011 18:24, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread David Gerard
On 30 September 2011 19:41, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Then, there also Kim's challenge to break such a filtering system. Kim doesn't need to do a damn thing. There are enough *actual* trolls on the Internet to mess with it just for the lulz. - d.

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Snow
On 9/30/2011 8:53 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: As mentioned in some of the previous posts, I think that it is much more feminist to defend right of girls to be sexually educated, even if it would mean secretly browsing Wikipedia articles on sexuality, than to insist on comfort of adult females in

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: That is just completely untrue. The image filter will allow people to choose what to see and what not to see. We won't be making the decisions... Actually, we will be. Depending upon how such a system is implemented,

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread David Gerard
On 30 September 2011 20:04, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote: On this score, it seems likely that we are failing to live up to one of our core principles, that of neutrality. I think we need significantly better editorial judgment applied to many of these articles to address it. That

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 September 2011 18:24, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and what

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread David Levy
André Engels wrote: We will be putting certain categories/tags/classifications on images, but it will still be the readers themselves who decide whether or not they see the tagged images. But _we_ will need to determine the categories/tags/classifications to use and the images to which

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and what not. Theo: they are different things, and given the premium on accuracy

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 21:12, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 September 2011 20:04, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote: On this score, it seems likely that we are failing to live up to one of our core principles, that of neutrality. I think we need significantly better

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread David Levy
I wrote: And for a hypothetical nudity category, we'll have to decide what constitutes nudity.  This will trigger endless debate, and whatever definition prevails will fail to jibe that held by a large number of readers. The above should read jibe _with_ that held by a large number of

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Theo10011
Hiya Bishakha On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Kim Bruning
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 04:12:37PM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: Up to now, all females from US (four of them) are in favor of filter (though, Sarah just tactically) and the only one not from US (Brazil/Portugal) is against. This is not entirely true. At least one other .us female is against. (To

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Kim Bruning
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:10:37PM +0200, Andre Engels wrote: No, we won't be. We will be putting certain categories/tags/classifications on images, but it will still be the readers themselves who decide whether or not they see the tagged images. Well, those tags would be public, so *anyone*

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-30 Thread Andreas Kolbe
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Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread MZMcBride
Keegan Peterzell wrote: http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/ Both the Wikimedia Board and Wikimedia Foundation staff have treated the image filter as a fait accompli. I think downplaying this reality is predictable and lamentable in Sue's post. Individuals and

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/ Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take.  Naturally, please discuss the blog on the blog and not thread this too much back to conversation

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:30 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/ Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take. Naturally, please

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 September 2011 07:40, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:30 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: This post appears mostly to be the tone argument: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument - rather than address those opposed to the WMF

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Dirk Franke
For anybody interested: I wrote a blog-post full of disagreement :-) http://asinliberty.blogspot.com/2011/09/sorry-sue-gardner-but-image-filter.html regards, southpark On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:45 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 07:40, Keegan Peterzell

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Nathan
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: The complete absence of mentioning the de:wp poll that was 85% against any imposed filter is just *weird*. Not mentioning it, and not acknowledging why someone would do that, doesn't make it go away. As you say, this

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Fred Bauder
It makes some sense. If you come to the conclusion that your constituency for a particularly important decision is a huge and diverse array of people (i.e. the readers), and then further conclude that opposition to your decision is coming from a very narrow and homogenous slice of that array

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 29.09.2011 17:00, schrieb Nathan: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:45 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: The complete absence of mentioning the de:wp poll that was 85% against any imposed filter is just *weird*. Not mentioning it, and not acknowledging why someone would do that, doesn't

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/ Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take.  Naturally, please discuss the blog on the blog and not thread this too much back to conversation

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Anneke Wolf
On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/ Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take. Naturally, please discuss the blog on the blog and not thread this too much back to

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 29 September 2011 22:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/ Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take.  Naturally, please discuss the

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 September 2011 23:45, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 22:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/ Pretty sound

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 29 September 2011 23:49, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 23:45, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 22:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: The trouble with responding on the blog is that responses seem to be being arbitrarily

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 September 2011 23:53, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Not dealing with pending comments promptly doesn't sound like arbitrary filtering to me... Note comments from others in this thread experiencing the same. - d. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 29 September 2011 23:55, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 23:53, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Not dealing with pending comments promptly doesn't sound like arbitrary filtering to me... Note comments from others in this thread experiencing the

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On 9/28/11 11:30 PM, David Gerard wrote: This post appears mostly to be the tone argument: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument - rather than address those opposed to the WMF (the body perceived to be abusing its power), Sue frames their arguments as badly-formed and that they

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread David Gerard
On 30 September 2011 00:28, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, when every thoughtful comment you have on a topic is met with nothing more than chants of WP:NOTCENSORED!, the tone argument seems quite valid. Really, every single response to every single comment? It suggests

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Ryan Kaldari
This isn't just about the image filter. Try discussing whether or not porn should be allowed on the Main page of Commons. Let me know if you get any responses that don't cite [[WP:NOTCENSORED]]. Somehow the majority of the community there believes that there are only two possible positions on

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Keegan Peterzell wrote: http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/ I don't think this is contributing much to the discussion. The point in the blog post is basically just that people should discuss how to make articles better. Everybody agrees. That, in the sense of the

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

2011-09-29 Thread phoebe ayers
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/ Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take.  Naturally, please discuss

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