[WikiEN-l] Re: On parents banning their children from Wikipedia

Sun Jul 10 18:24:04 UTC 2005

A feature in Mediawiki to allow a preference for logged-in users to "Disable
editing" could be useful. A password could be set for the preference, so it
would be needed to re-enable editing. Schools could benefit from this, if
they could set-up one account for the network.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthere" <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 7:13 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: On parents banning their children from Wikipedia


>
>
> Tony Sidaway a écrit:
> > Someone identifying himself as thagudearbh at yahoo.co.uk  writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I can see many parents banning their children from using it - to the
> >>detriment of us all.
> >
> >
> > I never understand this argument, although it always seems to be
advanced
> > to excuse to repugnant bit of crusading.
> >
> > If I shut the extraneous details of the crusade out of my mind, it
always
> > seems to come down to asking myself the following question:
> >
> > What material effect would result from parents banning their children?
> >
> >
> > And obviously the answer is that more children would use Wikipedia.
> > Wikipedia as Rock and roll.
> >
> > So how could this be to the detriment of Wikipedia?
>
> I do not think it is to the detriment of Wikipedia proper, but yes, I do
> not allow my children to use Wikipedia by themselves. And I will not
> before a few years (until I really lose control on what they do on the
net).
>
>
> I do not qualify myself as a highly traditional and restrictive parent.
> Quite the opposite actually. But in three years, I saw enough image
> material on wikipedia, that I do not consider suitable for them to see
now.
>
> It may be that I am a minority *here*, but I also think parents are a
> minority amongst involved editors. I do not see it as detrimental to the
> encyclopedia; simply, Wikipedia as is is for adults, not for children.
> There is nothing wrong with this.
>
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