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

Sun Feb 20 17:55:42 UTC 2005

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 09:30:56PM +0000, Christiaan Briggs wrote:
> A user is not always going to know what is going to offend them until 
> they have looked at the content. By then it's too late.

What's so bad about offending people?

Why is it something to avoid?

A reader who can open up the book of human knowledge to any page at all,
and be certain not to be offended, has no need for an encyclopedia.

-- 
Karl A. Krueger <kkrueger at whoi.edu>