A feature in Mediawiki to allow a preference for logged-in users to "Disable
editing" could be useful. A password could be set for the preference, so it
would be needed to re-enable editing. Schools could benefit from this, if
they could set-up one account for the network.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthere" <anthere9(a)yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 7:13 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: On parents banning their children from Wikipedia
Tony Sidaway a écrit:
> Someone identifying himself as thagudearbh(a)yahoo.co.uk writes:
>
>
>
>>I can see many parents banning their children from using it - to the
>>detriment of us all.
>
>
> I never understand this argument, although it always seems to be
advanced
> to excuse to repugnant bit of crusading.
>
> If I shut the extraneous details of the crusade out of my mind, it
always
seems to come
down to asking myself the following question:
What material effect would result from parents banning their children?
And obviously the answer is that more children would use Wikipedia.
Wikipedia as Rock and roll.
So how could this be to the detriment of Wikipedia?
I do not think it is to the detriment of Wikipedia proper, but yes, I do
not allow my children to use Wikipedia by themselves. And I will not
before a few years (until I really lose control on what they do on the
net).
I do not qualify myself as a highly traditional and restrictive parent.
Quite the opposite actually. But in three years, I saw enough image
material on wikipedia, that I do not consider suitable for them to see
now.
It may be that I am a minority *here*, but I also think parents are a
minority amongst involved editors. I do not see it as detrimental to the
encyclopedia; simply, Wikipedia as is is for adults, not for children.
There is nothing wrong with this.
ant
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