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In 2010, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger reported Wikimedia Commons to the FBI for hosting sexualized images of children known as "lolicon". After this was reported in the media, Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikimedia Foundation which hosts Commons, used his administrator status to delete several images without discussion from the Commons ...
Daniel Mietchen started a discussion on the mass upload to Commons of scientific images from OA publishers [4]. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg17693.html. [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop_on_Wikipedia_%26_Research-_Open_Knowledge_Conference_2011.
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In 2010, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger reported Wikimedia Commons to the FBI for hosting sexualized images of children known as "lolicon".
