Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-23 Thread private musings
ps. for my proposal see; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Sexual_content#Proposal_3_-_Model_ages.2C_releases.2C_and_personality_rights pps. the general reception for that particular proposal was that I'm a bit of a crazy person. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:39 PM, private musings wrote: >

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-23 Thread private musings
Here are some pointers to commons discussions; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Nudity - the commons policy on nudity, more focused on whether or not content is useful than things like permissions. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people - mentions

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-23 Thread Samuel Klein
Last post on this thread. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:38 PM, private musings wrote: > There are many shots clearly 'posed' - which I personally feel means that > permission is clearly granted by the subject - however there are also many > which don't indicate that the subject has any idea the imag

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-23 Thread Samuel Klein
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > This is under understanding the whole issue is not covered by BLP policy > (I assume if a vagina is shown but the face is not this is not a BLP > issue). I would feel better if we got model rights whenever using someone's body to ill

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-23 Thread private musings
ok - well to try and take sj's sage advice, and move this conversation forward, I'll focus on one smaller aspect of the bigger issue. Commons currently has quite a few photographs of people in various states of undress on beaches. The permission of the subject's for this material, for example, an

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> 2009/4/21 Yaroslav M. Blanter : > >> I can not agree with this. Many templates are hidden because they are >> too >> bulky to be shown in the body of the atricle, so what? Everyone who >> wants >> to get to the template can click on "show" link. Same with the pictures: >> as one solution, one hid

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/21 Yaroslav M. Blanter : > I can not agree with this. Many templates are hidden because they are too > bulky to be shown in the body of the atricle, so what? Everyone who wants > to get to the template can click on "show" link. Same with the pictures: > as one solution, one hides the pictur

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/21 : > PM's mail included a bit on an attempt at an appeal to authority by way of > Jimbo. Indeed - precisely because this has been turned down (including being voted down by a huge margin a few years ago) repeatedly on en:wp. It's a perennial proposal. - d. _

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> Hoi, > When you make illustration not visible you effectively remove them. I can not agree with this. Many templates are hidden because they are too bulky to be shown in the body of the atricle, so what? Everyone who wants to get to the template can click on "show" link. Same with the pictures:

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Nathan
The issue of "safe for work" browsing is a distraction, not a core problem. I don't think we often figure explicit images prominently on mainspace articles with unrelated or tenuously connected subjects. More importantly, no one has argued that [[Herpes]] should be text-only. It's tangents like th

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread birgitte_sb
--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Samuel Klein wrote: > From: Samuel Klein > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual > content > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 6:26 PM > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:18

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Nathan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen > wrote: > >> Hoi, >> When you make illustration not visible you effectively remove them. It is a >> cop out to continue and say that it is *others *that can decide that they >> do >> not want to be

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The argument is about "not safe for work", it is about not showing these pictures because you tag them as such. Consequently medical conditions, particularly those that have a sexual dimension will be affected. Explain to me why my point of view is not valid AND explain why these images are n

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Nathan
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > When you make illustration not visible you effectively remove them. It is a > cop out to continue and say that it is *others *that can decide that they > do > not want to be informed, that they are willing that other people are at

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you make illustration not visible you effectively remove them. It is a cop out to continue and say that it is *others *that can decide that they do not want to be informed, that they are willing that other people are at risk because essential images are not readily available. It is a cop

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> Someone I know did not recognise a venereal disease and as a consequence > she > became barren. It is because of this that I asked a Dutch organisation for > illustrations of how venereal diseases visually manifest themselves. The > images I got show sexual organs, show ulcers and other things th

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, We create nothing because other people will have to write it. When you look at many crucifixes, you will see human suffering in a really stark way. This is deeply troubling to some people and others will say that it depicts the suffering of Jezus on our behalf. Both have a conflicting point o

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Nathan
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:18 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > While creating software would be needed for a good solution, I think > we can create a simple solution by renaming all images with nudity so > that they begin with NSFW (not safe for work), as I mentioned here: > > > http://en.wikipedia.o

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Marcus Buck wrote: > In my opinion the best system would be like this: > We create a software measure to apply tags to specific content. ... While creating software would be needed for a good solution, I think we can create a simple solution by renaming all image

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Marcus Buck
Yaroslav M. Blanter hett schreven: > May be I misunderstand smth but as far as nudity is concerned (to return > to the original topic), obviously standards are very much different in > Denmark and Iran. Does it make sense to make a global standard and impose > it on Danish and Farsi wikipedias at t

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-21 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
>>> I second this. Does anyone really believe it is even possible to set >>> one standard of what it means to be 'collegial' and 'collaborative' for >>> all cultures? These things are not absolute values and each community >>> needs to work out what standards are most pragmatic for it's members. >

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:18 AM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/4/20 Birgitte SB : > >> I second this. Does anyone really believe it is even possible to set one >> standard of what it means to be 'collegial' and 'collaborative' for all >> cultures? These things are not absolute values and each comm

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread Marc Riddell
> --- On Mon, 4/20/09, Samuel Klein wrote: > >> From: Samuel Klein >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual >> content >> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" >> Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 3:39 AM

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/20 Birgitte SB : > I second this. Does anyone really believe it is even possible to set one > standard of what it means to be 'collegial' and 'collaborative' for all > cultures? These things are not absolute values and each community needs to > work out what standards are most pragmatic

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread Birgitte SB
--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Samuel Klein wrote: > From: Samuel Klein > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual > content > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 3:39 AM > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread Samuel Klein
Hi, As has been mentioned elsewhere in comments on your writings, you have good ideas which aren't directly related to nudity or sexual content. 1) respect human subjects of photos and other media 1a) get explicit model consent, both for models who are 'many meters away' and for significant mode

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread private musings
heh - as I say in the essay (and the noticeboard) - oh the irony! My hands are indeed filthy - although I never went blind ;-) - and yes, we still need to talk about this stuff. cheers, Peter, PM. > How about 'unclean hands'. > > In the recent en.wp discussion that you mention, you added an im

Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-20 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:19 PM, private musings wrote: > On a tangential note, I've also been looking at various governmental, and > NGO 'codes of conduct', some of which recommend things like accurate record > keeping on model information, ensuring users confirm that they wish to view > materia

[Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual content

2009-04-19 Thread private musings
Hello all, Those of you foolish enough to watchlist the english wikipedia's admin.s noticeboard, or Jimmy's talk page, might have noticed a broo ha ha this last weekend concerning nude pictures on userpages. Basically, a user has an image of a shaven vagina on their userpage with the caption 'No m