Thank you! On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhada...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > At its 11 July board meeting, the Board of Trustees passed a resolution > rescinding its previous direction to implement the personal image hiding > feature. > > The resolution is online at > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:_Personal_Image_Hiding_Feature > > We are working on a Q&A document that will be published after Wikimania. > > The following is the resolution's text: > > "In May 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously passed > a resolution regarding controversial content. The resolution included a > request to the Executive Director to implement a "personal image hiding > feature" for the Wikimedia projects. > > Following a community poll organized by the Foundation, and extensive > discussion in various venues, it has become clear that this issue can be be > highly divisive and distracting to the Wikimedia community. We trust our > community, and we respect the arguments that have been made opposing the > feature as well as those in support of it. We affirm our support for better > user choice and user preferences, but do not want to prescribe a specific > mechanism for offering that choice. Therefore we rescind the request to > develop this feature. The remainder of the May 2011 resolution remains in > effect." > > Cheers > > Bishakha > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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