[Foundation-l] Wolf Mountain MediaWiki Appliances Released

Wed Jul 26 23:09:14 UTC 2006

Domas Mituzas wrote:
> Hi!!!!
> 
>> revolution/pro-alternate lifestyle propoganda materials
>> removed from the dumps. 
> 
> You forgot China and their needs!
> 
> Anyway, I'm somewhat confused. You disagree with idea that foundation is 
> more worthy cause to support Wikipedia, than buying filtering hardware.
> 
>> from much of the topics, or perceived erotic imagery in many of the 
>> articles. My tools let you filter import XML dumps
> 
> Do your filters try to count how much pink is in picture? :)
> 
> Anyway, I'm not sure censoring Wikipedia is helping Wikipedia.
> And I'm not sure anyone limiting access to proper wikipedia content is 
> helping Wikipedia either.
> 
> I guess there're more books which contain violence (say... smiting in 
> Bible), which should be definitely filtered.
> 

Yes, the Bible is full of violence, sex, and lots of other "nasty
stuff"; and so is Wikipedia. Sure, you can filter them, but you're going
to end up with a lot of holes.

A better use of time/effort would be not to filter articles on their
subject area, but on their quality; if you have the time, going through
an article to find which is the "best" revision and then letting
everyone else know, and/or making a list of what the "best" articles
are, will ultimately be more productive than filtering out a (hopefully
NPOV) decent article because you don't think that your readers should
have access to this kind of information.

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