Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-20 Thread effe iets anders
2009/5/18 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com I think if there was demand for this within the editing community, it would already exist. The problem, then, is not what to do for the editors who might like a safe option but for the readers who don't have an account and can't set preferences or add .js

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-18 Thread Nathan
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: What I'd like to see is a preferences framework that allows people to subscribe to a set of opt-in viewing/reading options similar to how we currently can add JS widgets. If any of them become so massively popular and

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-18 Thread Ray Saintonge
Nathan wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: What I'd like to see is a preferences framework that allows people to subscribe to a set of opt-in viewing/reading options similar to how we currently can add JS widgets. If any of them become so

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-17 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: There is certainly a way to design such a feature to address the concerns you list.  I believe the real problem with such a feature is in content selection. There are always the boderline cases and who puts in the work

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-15 Thread Birgitte SB
--- On Thu, 5/14/09, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: From: Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-15 Thread Nathan
I'm with Simetrical on this one. One persons censorship is anothers editorial decision, and by and large[1] the actual content on Wikimedia projects is determined by the cultural sensitivities of the Wikimedia community and not the ideals to which we aspire. The arguments we make are by turns

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-15 Thread Aryeh Gregor
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: I think this email really shows a misunderstanding of Wikipedia is not censored is about; so I am starting a new thread to discuss the issue. Well, for my part, I think the entire Wikipedia is not censored policy

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-15 Thread Birgitte SB
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote: From: Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery To: Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-15 Thread Birgitte SB
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not censored (was Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-15 Thread David Goodman
The argument against concealing or making it more difficult in any way to access material is that it inevitably amounts to censorship. In my youth, one could not receive publications--on any subject--through the mail from the Communist countries without signing a form that one had requested them;