[Foundation-l] Wolf Mountain MediaWiki Appliances Released

Thu Jul 27 09:49:46 UTC 2006

Hoi,
In the past encyclopedias have played a certain role. They explained how
things are. They did this with quite some disregard to what the powers that
be thought about this. When information is filtered from Wikipedia, you
explicitly allow people to be blindsighted because of an intentional lack of
information.

Statistics show that kids who are exposed to sexual education, in an
atmosphere where the functionality of sexuality is not a taboo subject are
less likely to get prematurely pregnant. They are also less likely to get
venereal deseases.

Indeed the GFDL allows you to do this "service" to your communities. It is
as they say: the law is an ass.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 7/27/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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> Lars Aronsson wrote:
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> >Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
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> >
> >>I simply provide filtering mechanisms they can use to filter the
> >>dumps. That's up to the users, not me. I personally don't care
> >>what's in it.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I find this deeply problematic.  Are you providing your audience
> >with a product that says "this is Wikipedia" and where the edit
> >history for an article says "this part was written by user:LA2"
> >but where the stuff I wrote might be filtered out?
> >
> >
> That's what the GFDL is all about **ANYONE** may edit. This also means
> **ANYONE** can edit or filter out materials.
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>