QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Fri 6th August 2010, 9:35pm)
I believe Ms. Dutta interest in rape etc is from an activist and journalistic perspective and not at all prurient. Your clip art graphic comic book format with images of child sexuality while seeming to criticizing Wikipedia contributes a disturbing look and feel to the forum. Could you consider toning them down?
We've asked him before, but he doesn't seem to "take the hint."
OTOH, I think I sort of see what he's getting at - it's a "careful what you wish for" thing, right? Bishakha Datta says she'd like to see some articles that address the horrific problem of gang-rape in India, thinking Wikipedians will take the socially-responsible path and portray them as the brutal, inhuman crimes that they are - only she doesn't realize that Wikipedia has little or no capacity for social responsibility, and is just as likely to produce "well-illustrated" articles that amount to apologia for the rapists, if not outright glorification for them.
If so, then clearly he's being a bit, uh,
overzealous in hinting such a thing might happen, since while Wikipedia as a corporate entity lacks the aforementioned capacity (for social responsibility), there are probably enough decent-minded WP editors and admins left to prevent this. (Though, of course, there may be occasional "vandalism" periods of up to 60 minutes during which that sort of material might appear... but since she's a board member, maybe she can get them to use "Flagged Protection.")
More likely, the English WP folks will ignore her suggestion - India is a looonnnng way off for most of them, and there's no obvious pop-culture tie-in.