Wales Supports Purging Porn From Wikipedia 263
Larry Sanger writes "Jimmy Wales recently took a bold position against pornography on Wikimedia Commons: 'Wikimedia Commons admins who wish to remove from the project all images that are of little or no educational value but which appeal solely to prurient interests have my full support.' Wales also restarted the "Commons:Sexual content" policy page. His basic complaint is that Wikimedia Commons hosts too much unnecessary porn, and he wants to get rid of it. He underscored his seriousness this way, stating that we can expect 'a strong statement' from the WMF soon: 'If the Wikimedia Foundation wants to declare that it is OK for Commons to be a porn host, they can do that, and I'll not be able to continue. That isn't going to happen, though, and in fact you should expect a strong statement from the Board and/or Sue in the next few days.'" (More, below.)
Sanger continues: "This comes about a month after I originally posted my report about depictions of child sexual molestation on Wikimedia Foundation servers to the FBI, which Slashdot duly ripped to shreds (as only Slashdot can), and a little over a week after the FoxNews.com story. The latter coverage reported that one of my senators, and my representative to Congress, had forwarded the matter to the FBI's Assistant Director of Congressional Affairs. I'm happy to be able to congratulate Jimmy Wales for his good judgment on this, and I look forward to the larger Wikimedia community approaching these issues with a little more sanity."
Damn the Welsh! (Score:5, Funny)
At least it's not sheep.
Redundancy (Score:2, Funny)
Mention Slashdot in an article. Get your article published on Slashdot. Success.
Free Porn? (Score:3, Funny)
Is the currently hosted porn Creative Commons Licensed? Under what conditions has it been produced? Is it commercial trailers, or home made?
I support destroying the porn industry, by spreading the habit making porn at home and spreading it under a CC license.
Re:Free Porn? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:"too much unnecessary porn" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:does Wales still have any authority? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, thanks, I'd forgotten about the Sex for Edits [gawker.com] storm in a B-cup.
Presumably all you have to do to get your content the Jimbo stamp of approval is to "fuck his brains out all night". Don't all queue up at once.
Re:Start with this then... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Start with this then... (Score:5, Funny)
Amputee porn... yuck! Must be removed!
Re:I can't explain what pr0n is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"too much unnecessary porn" (Score:5, Funny)
I was going to ask how you manage to resist and remain celibate for life, now I know.
Re:"too much unnecessary porn" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:didn't jimmy wales get his start in internet po (Score:3, Funny)
Next you'll be telling us that Obama had an African father
Are you sure? I'm fairly sure I remember Fox News telling me that his father was Satan and his mother was Stalin's daughter.
Oxymoron? (Score:4, Funny)
... unnecessary porn ...
Re:Of course... (Score:4, Funny)
Is there a comprehensive list of the disputed site? It's raining today and I can evaluate each page to see if it's truely pornographic. Thanx in advance. //gets lotion
Re:Start with this then... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"too much unnecessary porn" (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Surprised!! (Score:3, Funny)
He is led down to the basement. There are chains and leather straps on the walls.
In the middle of the room, several large objects - mostly made of pipes and leather straps, sit ominously.
The director of HR appears in a tight spandex suit.
LordNimon is nervous, but excited.....
Ok, OK, I'll stop now.
Re:"too much unnecessary porn" (Score:3, Funny)
Wrong Wales (Score:4, Funny)
When I saw the headline, I thought it was about Welsh porn, and figured they just wanted to save resources. A list of Welsh porn would take up way too much space, with titles like "Goleuddydd does Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch".