[WikiEN-l] Re: Suggestions for a work-safe encyclopedia

Sun Apr 17 17:39:35 UTC 2005

BJörn Lindqvist said:
>> picture I am about to allow through is work safe? Well I can hope it
>> is mention in the caption but if we take say this version of the
>> article it clearly isn't:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Titanic_%281997_movie%29&oldid=10580793>
> Is this a purely theoretical discussion? Naming that page as an
> example of a page that isn't "work safe" is laughable. Surely, in most
> work-places it isn't work safe to waste your salaried time reading up
> about Titanic, but THAT PARTICULAR IMAGE does not make the page less
> "work safe" than it already is.

Geni has also unwittlingly demonstrated that the Wikipedia site will never
be "worksafe" unless we delete the history files.