Sarah Stierch:
While I support the use of technology, I also fear that people put so much
trust into this technology they aren't aware of the lame content being
uploaded. They love to reiterate that if the "bot approves it" it's okay and
fine to be on Commons, but so much content that is porno
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:06, Sarah Stierch wrote:
> While I support the use of technology, I also fear that people put so much
> trust into this technology they aren't aware of the lame content being
> uploaded. They love to reiterate that if the "bot approves it" it's okay and
> fine to be on C
And as a note - when you review the content that users are uploading using
Bryan's bot, the MAJORITY of it is educational content. Nothing
"questionable" or too contorversial.
It seems the biggest problems come from a freedom of panorama, nudity/porn,
and celebrity images uploaded to Flickr with i
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Sarah wrote:
> the images are scraped off the CC-BY and CC-BY-SA Flickr
> > streams.
> >
> That was something I noticed the other day. An anon replaced the
> infobox image on Veganism with a close-up shot of a woman's genitals
> and a vibrator. I looked to see who
>
>
> > Especially when the images are scraped off the CC-BY and CC-BY-SA Flickr
> > streams.
> >
> That was something I noticed the other day. An anon replaced the
> infobox image on Veganism with a close-up shot of a woman's genitals
> and a vibrator. I looked to see who had uploaded it and it sa
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:01, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
wrote:
>
> The problem with all of this on Wikimedia is the anonymity factor.
> People could say "I am the model and I hereby give consent." I don't
> know how we get round that.
>
> Sarah
>
> Especially when the images are scraped off the C
[Including whole original message]
I wonder whether it would be worth developing a guideline, or just
writing an essay about it on Commons. Trouble is, I know so little
about how the Commons works -- I don't even know how to find their
list of policies.
My thinking is that voyeurism is increasin
