[WikiEN-l] Re: Suggestions for a work-safe encyclopedia

Tue Apr 19 03:18:49 UTC 2005

BJörn Lindqvist wrote:

>>picture I am about to allow through is work safe? Well I can hope it
>>is mention in the caption but if we take say this version of the
>>article it clearly isn't:
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Titanic_%281997_movie%29&oldid=10580793
>>
>
>Is this a purely theoretical discussion? Naming that page as an
>example of a page that isn't "work safe" is laughable. Surely, in most
>work-places it isn't work safe to waste your salaried time reading up
>about Titanic, but THAT PARTICULAR IMAGE does not make the page less
>"work safe" than it already is.
>
The long-forgotten genesis of this thread was that Sean Barrett
was observing that WP's current stance on images meant that a
WP user could run afoul of companies' anti-sexual-harassment
policies (images of nudes being considered to create a "hostile
work environment"); some of those policies require that
employees be terminated for violating them. So it's not at all
theoretical; I would advise any person who works for such a
company not to use WP for any purpose at all during work hours,
even if the intended use of WP is work-related.

Stan