[Foundation-l] university blocking wikipedia

Tue Oct 2 22:13:27 UTC 2007

On 10/2/07, Terin Stock <terin.stock at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> I know the Palm Beach County Public School district in Palm Beach,
> Florida activity blocks all access to Wikipedia, under the "Educational
> Sites" category. I've talked with some teachers, they suggest using
> answers.com as a solution. Most of the teachers also raised concerns
> about blocking of other useful websites, both from the teacher's and
> student's standpoint.

Well thats for a Public School district, not a university. Public
Schools have been way more stricter with content filtering than
universities.

However, blocking wp from schools is something I can understand, and I
am assuming that it doesn't have to do with content but with the fact
that users using the school districts computers can edit wp, and thats
what they are trying to avoid.

>
> That said, it seems that the only Wikimedia site blocked is Wikipedia.
> And isn't answers.com just a sql dump of Wikipedia? Do they have editors
> that check the articles on their site?
>
> C F wrote:
> > On 10/2/07, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
> >> Unis have *been blocked* by wikipedia when they hosted active vandals.
> >> That's different.
> >
> > I'm assuming what the OP said was that the Us blocked wp, and not that
> > the Us were blocked by WP.
> >
> > In any event this is just a rumor as long as the OP only heard about
> > it, it hasn't really happened.
> >
> >
> >> SJ
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, dan harp wrote:
> >>
> >>> just heard an odd thing from a peer @ the high school
> >>> I work at.
> >>>
> >>> "Many major universities have blocked wikipedia"
> >>>
> >>> thought I would throw it out to the community and get
> >>> a bit of direction to research - I find the
> >>> possibility odd.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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