[WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently classroom-safe

Sun Feb 20 12:26:05 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>Christiaan Briggs said:
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>>Tony Sidaway wrote:
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>>>Christiaan Briggs said:
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>>>>It's hardly ideal, the user needs to click on every single image
>>>>before they can see them.
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>>>Only when you actually have the feature set that way. If you don't
>>>feel like it you just go ahead and download the whole lot.
>>>I like this, because it leaves me as the user in total control.
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>>And with a site-based system you would have this same ability, and
>>more.
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>Not more, and probably nothing like as easy to use.  If we've got people
>now moaning about clicking their browser menus once or twice every now and
>then, the complexities of navigating a form interface will bring us a
>string of moaners (and they'll moan to us instead of their browser
>designers), and the clerical task of sorting images into (and out of)
>categories will absord energy.
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Based on the system I envision, for anons, there will be nothing to 
change in the preferences, and viewing the image inline would be as 
simple as clicking. For those logged in, it would be "set and forget" in 
the preferences.

John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])