[WikiEN-l] Re: Putting Wikipedia on a CD or DVD

Thu Mar 24 18:51:31 UTC 2005

Nathan Wong wrote:

> Tom Haws wrote:
>
>> They are going to get it anyway.  They may as well get it from me?  
>> Is that the reasoning?
>
>
> No, merely that you would no more be 'responsible' for a school age 
> child accessing that information from a Wikipedia CD/DVD than you are 
> for it being on Wikipedia atm, or a teacher/headmaster would be for 
> providing access to it (there's no reason not to have a sign that says 
> "Warning: this is an encyclopedia and there may be some articles that 
> you find objectionable".
> On the other hand, if we were to initiate a review system there is no 
> reason that it cannot have some form of content warning/aging anyway 
> (though I think that just a "mature content notice" would be best). 
> From this, you could produce two version of Wikipedia - one which is 
> censored (if you see fit - though it could be argued that this is 
> against the "wiki-way").

Please please please let's not start this all over again.

If you have a specific proposal, post it on meta, otherwise
1) yes, we know it's an issue for many people,
2) no, there is still no consensus as to what to do about it.

Stan