[Foundation-l] Sex-related content improvement

Thu Jan 14 18:42:33 UTC 2010

I think this is a great idea actually.  Probably a good place to start would
be the WikiProject: Sex page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sexology_and_sexuality

Commons would probably be (or should be) interested as well.

Cheers
DM

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Jiří Hofman <hofmanj at aldebaran.cz> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> It is clear that much of sex-related multimedia stored in our project is of
> a very low quality, not meeting our requirements and needs. Often, it
> doesn't provide what we are looking for - high quality information.
>
> I propose to start a project which would encourage, by a form of contest
> and rewards, high quality (that means technical quality, usefulness for
> education, aesthetic value etc...) multimedia which could be used in our
> projects. Such multimedia can easily replace current low quality content.
> Once we will have multimedia excellently covering something particular, we
> can easily reject anything else trying to cover the same. And nobody could
> blame us for hosting bad images anymore.
>
> I understand that some people can say "we don't support porn" now. But this
> won't be porn but information! Our projects must cover also sex-related
> matters. We have to look for high quality multimedia for this area of
> knowledge as well as for others. There are projects supporting taking
> photographs of municipalities etc... Why not to use similar ways for
> improving this?
>
> I don't propose intentionally how such a project should decide what exactly
> the multimedia in the contest should depict nor how exactly the contest
> should be arranged. I feel this should be defined by a broader community. I
> only propose to use a new internet domain for this purpose in order to keep
> not yet chosen materials out of our projects until they are awarded.
>
> Don't forget that sex-related articles are the most viewed ones in
> Wikipedia. We need the high quality content in this field too, not to wait
> until somebody uploads something which could be useful. Also a license and
> personal rights are quite often an issue for sex-related multimedia. All
> this can be solved and we could obtain the best sex-related multimedia among
> all encyclopedias.
>
> Best regards,
> Jiri
>
>
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > As for the link, showing these in greatly enlarged  versions, without
> > > the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a
> > > strong bias. We've never engaged in that use of the material, nor
> > > would we. If people want to take our material out of our encyclopedic
> > > content and turn it into sexually-focused presentations, that is their
> > > look-out.
> >
> > What if they aren't used in an encyclopedic context?
> >
> > PM says he highlighted 17 images [1].
> >
> > Assuming Commons "Global File Links" is accurate then these images
> > appear on 27 content pages in Wikipedias and Wikibooks (not counting
> > User and Talk pages, etc.).  However, two of the images account for 16
> > of the uses, and 10 of the 17 images are not used on any project at
> > all.  This is of course a largely anecdotal sample (and there is no
> > reason to assume that PM's set is random), but my personal impression
> > has been similar.  It seems to like we have seen a rise in unused
> > sexual imagery being stored at Commons.
> >
> > I'll happily defend the usefulness of sexual imagery in many of the
> > places where it is used, but there are downsides to allowing such
> > collections grow far beyond the applications we have for them.
> >
> > -Robert Rohde
> >
> > [1]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Privatemusings/ImagesUsedInVideoPresentation
> >
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