On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David: I haven't seen anyone assert that the image in question isn't a > violation of the principle of least astonishment. I've seen several people > suggest the image was acceptable for other reasons. If you can articulate > a reasonable (i.e., not full of snark and one that indicates you've read at > least most of the ongoing discussion) argument that putting the image in > question on Commons frontpage (and the frontpage of numerous other projects > in the process,) is not a violation of the principle of least astonishment, > I'd love to hear it. Especially if you craft your argument to recognize > the fact that the image was both displayed on projects that didn't speak > any of the languages it was captioned in, and given that most Wikimedia > viewers can't actually play our video formats. I guess you could argue > that the resolution only says that the board "supports" the POLA rather > than requires it, but that's a rather weak argument for putting a grainy > black and white stack of dead corpses linking to a video many can't play > that's only captioned in a handful of langauges on the frontpage of a > project that serves projects in 287 different languages. I think David was reacting to your bold assertion that the next time you determine Commons has violated a Board resolution, drastic action would be taken. This suggests some certainty on your part that the Board and stewards agree with your judgment. I haven't seen evidence of that. You can certainly advocate that action be taken, but dire warnings of certain consequences seem a bit beyond your authority to issue. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
