Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View/Pornopedia/2010-May porn purge

News coverage

• Wikipedia purges porn Fox news 7 May
• Wikimedia dumps porn following FoxNews probe Silicon Republic 10 May
• Wikimedia pornography row deepens as Wales cedes rights BBC 10 May
• Wikipedia-porn-row-sees-founder-give-up-his-editing-privileges Daily Telegraph 11 May
• Wikipedia roiled by porn row The Inquirer 11 May
• Commons:News regarding the sexual content purge

Wales' purge

• Wales' deletion log. A red link indicates a deletion that stuck. A blue link indicates subsequent restoration.

Restored material

• Incest pedophile drawing
• Female bottomless
• 'Up skirt'

Material that was always there

• List of genitalia
• Wikipedia editor's child porn collection (now deleted).
• Bad images

Wikipedia culture

Evidence that the political culture of Wikipedia is deeply hostile to getting rid of porn.

• Rosenzweig, fatuous comment on Wales' talk page
• David Gerard "These vicious morons"
• Wales' talk page at commons
• Wales' talk page at en:Wkipedia
• Pro-pedo POV pushers
• pro-bestiality POV pushers
• Sexualised images of children and the Wikipedia mascot
• Paid shills for the porn industry
• Pedophiles can be productive editors
• "The censorship of centuries-old art is a very frightening event" a Wikipedia editor speaks to the press.
• Pedophiles are welcome
• Hand wringing over whether they should be welcome
• Should 6 year olds be allowed to edit?
• Public librarian user DGG says "There is no general agreement here that any system of filtering for any purpose is ever necessary, and I think it is totally contrary to the entire general idea behind the the free culture movement.
• Village pump discussion
• Don't think about the children

Wales attacked by the community

• Remove founder flag
• Petition to Wales

Reaction of Wikimedia foundation

• Wales admits deletions to foundation
  • I'm sorry I acted with such urgency
• Statement by Michael Snow
• Statement by Sydney Poore "I support the clean up effort by Jimmy and the administrators on Commons for the images that have no significant educational value. I also understand that to some editors who are new to thinking about the issue that this may seem abrupt. So, I encourage good communication between all the stakeholders so that we can understand each others concerns and address them."