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Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation could create a project for free content pornography.

Proposal

  • A fitting domain name would be required. Pornopedia.org for example.
  • Setup a Wiki. Allow local uploads.

Motivation

  • Wikipedia articles on sexual subjects are among the most widely viewed across many languages.
  • Sexual images among the most widely viewed images on Wikimedia Commons.
  • An increasing density of explicitly sexual images on Commons and English Wikipedia and commons indicates a clear interest in this subject by editors.
  • Wiki(p|m)edia should be the sum of human knowledge, no? Sex is all some people seem to think about!

Key Questions

  • Should pornopedia exist in multiple languages or is porn the only practical universal language?
  • Should fetish classified sub-domains be used instead?
  • Is translatewiki.net prepared to translate the user interface into porn?
  • Will NPOV be a requirement for pornopedia?
  • Would this essay cause confusion if applied to pornopedia?
  • Should pornstar biographies be moved from Wikipedia to pornopedia?
  • How would you establish consent from all human participants and prevent people uploading personal photographs of former lovers without their exes permission?
  • How would you establish that all participants were legally adult at the time the photograph was taken or filming was done?

Potential Costs

  • Increased filtering from more conservative countries
  • Large bandwidth costs
  • Loss of goodwill by alienating people who find explicit pornography offensive
  • Compliance with (any) requirements from 18 U.S.C. § 2251

The last two costs must be tolerable considering that English Wikipedia and Wikimedia commons already contain ample amounts of sexually explicit material.

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