The ugly content censors are raising their heads again.
Just stop it and dont spend any more funds on this.
I understand between the lines that it was stopped in order to protect the
fundraiser from unwanted discussions in the public.
Give as a clear message, that Wikipedia/Wikimedia will never
I would like it the other way:
Why should some minorities force a worldwide project to obay their point of
view regarding images or other controversial content?
Why should the german speaking community collect funds for this filtering and
hiding project?
Every community is free to discuss whic
> Andreas Kolbe jayen466 at yahoo.com
> Mon Oct 10 11:16:21 UTC 2011
>
> But when it comes to discussing whether a specific illustration or media file
> should be added
> to an article, the one criterion nobody seems to raise is whether this is the
> type of image or
> video a reliably publishe
Sue wrote:
> It is asking me to do something.
> But it is not asking me to do the specific thing that has
> been discussed over the past several months, and which the Germans
> voted against.
I may translate:
As the German community has voted against filters,
I was ordered to circumvent this vote
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:58:03 -0700
> From: Erik Moeller
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l]
>
> The vote in German Wikipedia, and most of the discussions to
> date, have focused on the specific ideas and mock-ups that
> were presented as part of the referendum.
Erik,
You are wrong. The vot
> From: Erik Moeller
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l]
>
>
> The literal translation of what was being voted on:
>
> "Pers?nliche Bildfilter
> (Filter, die illustrierende Dateien anhand von
> Kategorien der Wikipedia verbergen und vom Leser an- und abgeschaltet
> werden k?nnen, vgl. de
> On 10/29/11 12:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> There have been LOADS of opportunities where the community
> is asked, begged to be involved in what will be the way forward. The most
> obvious opportunity has been the Strategy project. At this time the
> Wikimedia Foundation is looking for all
The only exeptable filter would be a _strictly_ personal one.
Stored on the users computer in an encrypeted file, which he can transfer from
one computer on his memorystick or CD to the other if logged in with the same
username, but not to be shared with others.
Never ever to be stored on any c
>
> ... but -if we want to reach consensus[1]- what we really need to be
> discussing is: screwdrivers.
>
> sincerely,
> Kim Bruning
>
No, we need to harden the wall agaist all attacks by hammers, screwdrivers and
drills.
We have consensus: Wikipedia should not be censored.
> Scattered
> > It's been a requested feature for a while, Someone finally
> > got around to writing it
Who has asked for such a silly feature?
Every uploader sees the image he/she is uploading and has made the necessary
rotation beforehand.
But perhaps the same people that organized the Indian desaster
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