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

Mon Feb 21 22:33:56 UTC 2005

On 21 Feb 2005, at 12:50 pm, Tony Sidaway wrote:

> Christiaan Briggs said:
>> Tony Sidaway wrote:
>>
>>> Christiaan Briggs said:
>>>>
>>>> This function is NOT available in any browser; you cannot filter 
>>>> images based on categorisation using a web browser.
>>>
>>> Well, not by categories chosen by someone else, no.
>>
>> Good I'm glad we can finally agree.
>
> Not quite. I'm left with the funny feeling that you think it's a 
> ''good'' thing to permit other editors to control which parts of an 
> article I will see, and a ''bad'' thing, or at least very inconvenient 
> and messy, to exert that control myself. --~~~~

They wouldn't control what you see anymore than your browser would 
control what you see. I'd appreciate a bit of intellectual honesty 
Tony.

Christiaam