This discussion seems to have branched out somewhat. Peter's concern was that underage admins shouldn't be involved in the maintenance of sexually explicit images. OK, so, legalese aside -
* you could put in place a vetting process for admins akin to what we have for OTRS - real names, ages, etc. ** Can't see this happening, can you? 1,701 admins on the English Wikipedia alone - more for Commons, where other images are stored. Many are unwilling, for what I consider to be practical reasons, to identify themselves even to the foundation. ** Docs can be faked - in absence of face-to-face verification of identity, there's not a lot you can do about underage admins. * I don't suppose it's a great deal of reassurance, but I've interacted with a fair few underage admins regarding issues like these, and most take a fairly clinical approach to it all. I realise this is a subjective opinion, so I won't push this too much. * The fact that these images exist at all will be a perennial concern. I dislike the argument that if WP doesn't host them, the kiddies will be bound to find them somewhere else on the Internet - but this *is* true. I'm fairly sure most of us on this list grew up without the Internet and still saw our share of explicit material before the age of 18. There really isn't a lot you can do. * I don't think that this sort of moral concern should be completely trashed outright, as some of the previous posters have done, but our readership and user base are both so vast that there's honestly not a lot that can be done. This sounds a bit like admitting defeat - I'm trying not to make it out like that. But Wikimedia sites are unable to tailor-make their content to specific users' needs to the extent that would be necessary to satisfy most of these concerns. (Or we could, and, as someone pointed out, you'd have Simple English WP). Home Internet filters tackle this more effectively (and smart kids will still override these). For what it's worth, my young teenaged brother is still watched like a hawk by my parents during his limited Internet usage hours. Parents *can* take the responsibility if they are concerned enough. -- Riana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Riana http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Riana _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
