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What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem?
Larry Sanger writes "In 2011, the Wikimedia Board committed to installing a 'controversial content' filter even weaker than Google's SafeSearch, as proposed by the '2010 Wikimedia Study of Controversial Content.' Since then, after growing opposition by some Wikipedians, some board members have made it clear that they do not expect this filter to be finished and installed. Nevertheless, Wikipedia continues to host an enormous amount of extremely gross porn and other material most parents don't want their kids stumbling across. And this content is some of the website's most-accessed. Nevertheless, children remain some of Wikipedia's heaviest users. Jimmy Wales has recently reiterated his support for such a filter, but no work is being done on it, and the Foundation has not yet issued any statement about whether they intend to continue work on it."
(In case it isn't obvious from the headline and summary, these articles discuss subject matter that may not be appropriate for workplace reading.)
Main link is the last one in the summary: http://larrysanger.org/2012/05/what-should-we-do-about-wikipedias-porn-problem/
no no no -- links to the porn, obviously...
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The craziest thing about that is how long they had to hold the pose for the painter.
Porn turns children into rapists. Much like video games turn them into murderers.
Filthy, filthy copyrapists!
Search for forefinger (obviously NSFW) and find porn.
Good or bad. If people are spamming the site with it, it is still a nuisance.
A nuisance for whom? I'm on wiki several times per day and have never run across it. I wasn't on Wikipedia searching for interracial gang bang with double penetration. I guess if the kids decide to search for "massive black cock". they might find it. Well, let me see. I'll do a wiki search for that and see what comes up. OK here's the result. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma_(chicken) What a scandal.
I can report that I very rarely come across porn of any description.
Sensible move- that generally causes the pages to stick together.
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Yes, with the 'War on Porn' achieving results comparable to that of both the 'War on Drugs' and our legislature's ability to stay within a set budget. ;-)
I am John Hurt.
"http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sexual_intercourse_with_vaginal_lubricative_fluid.jpg"
is the best laptop lcd brightness calibration image I've ever seen. It's a pig working on a bunch of things and wondering "are these gonna be too bright for the mac guys or too dark for the PC guys" and most images you can't tell if they're a bit off or not if the screen is tilted wrong and god help you.
But if you can see this properly then you can adjust the brightness pretty accurately. Thanks!
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