[WikiEN-l] Re: RK, naughty pictures, and how better to flame me

Wed Feb 16 17:11:52 UTC 2005

Anthere wrote:

> I am currently in contact with some people to try to see what we could 
> do in schools (this would be in Burkina Faso for example). They are 
> thinking of "certified" version on cd rom. And when they mean 
> "certified", they do not really mean validation, they mean "leaving 
> aside content inapropriate for kids".

Has Benin ever come under consideration?  Its unusually high level of 
press freedom for Africa (see 
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/freedom_of_press.htm ) suggests 
that they might be more open to a product like ours.  Does anyone have 
any contacts there?

> Wikipedia with such multimedia ressource is just not for kids. I 
> proposed several months ago that we move toward filtering system (a 
> parent system to exclude display of certain pictures). Some people 
> have already worked something on meta on the topic. I am still 
> interested.
> If only, this could be unabled in school.
> Right now, with no filter, making a second version with no shocking 
> pictures would just take too much time for anyone.
> So, unless there is a filtering system which might be unable, I will 
> myself discorage use of wikipedia in schools.

Couldn't the category system be used as the basis for a filtering 
system.  Thus something like [[Category:XXX]] could be applied to an 
article with a strongly objectionable picture that could be filtered out.