[WikiEN-l] Don't push POV into the Wikipedia software and policies

Fri Feb 25 09:57:21 UTC 2005

Sounds good to me.

Arno

----- Original Message -----
From: "James D. Forrester" <james at jdforrester.org>
To: "'English Wikipedia'" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Don't push POV into the Wikipedia software and policies
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:33:30 -0000

> 
> On Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:36 PM, Tony Sidaway
> <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> 
> > Stan Shebs said:
> >
> > > Even though we ourselves might not want a bowdlerized WP,
> > > it would be extraordinarily convenient to have some kind
> > > of subset quasi-mirror that advertised themselves as
> > > "child-safe".
> >
> > Absolutely.  This is what I've been proposing for some time.
> 
> Indeed. It's called "Wikipedia 1.0", and /that/ can have filtering and
> whathaveyou as much as you want, with a "child-friendly" default (whatever
> that is). My, and I think perhaps quite a few others', main problem with the
> use of server-side filtering is that it evidently won't be 100% effective in
> a dynamic environment, and it only takes one slip-up - just one - to cause a
> PR problem of which it seems to be primarily developed with a mind to
> attempting to avoid. I would absolutely /love/ to participate in the
> Wikipedia 1.0 project, including very much content-categorisation.
> 
> So how about it, everybody? ;-)
> 
> Yours,
> --
> James D. Forrester -- Wikimedia: [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
> 
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> 
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