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

Wed Feb 16 18:04:45 UTC 2005

Ray Saintonge a écrit:
> 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?

Yes

I

But not for a school :-)

I see that Burkina Faso is quite low
About Burkina... it is no use trying to make textbooks for kids, the 
governement controls the content AND the printing of textbooks.
The NGO I am in contact with chose to gather resources, to be able to 
purchase them over 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.

Nod.

Ant