[WikiEN-l] Nude Kate Winslet Picture

Fri Apr 15 17:19:09 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>Rebecca said:
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>>I really think this comes down to an issue of accessibility. If we're
>>aiming to build a large, open and accessible encyclopedia, then I
>>don't think it helps that cause to effectively limit its readership to
>>the most extremely liberal people on the planet - which rules out a
>>vast amount of our potential readers and contributors.
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>There are no a priori access restrictions on Wikipedia.  If the pictures
>offend you, don't download them.
>
But often a person has no way of knowing whether a picture will be 
offensive until he has seen it.  We can only suggest that a picture 
*may* be offensive to some, perhaps with some offensiveness rating.  
That can still give the user the option to set his own tolerance level.

Ec