Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary...

Keeping kids safe from "adult" articles is a valid parent/teacher concern, and it may be very important in some cultures. And we should all recall the Florida teacher who lost her job when her kids accidentally got onto a pornsite in her classroom. I've worked on the 1.0 project on en:wp. When we produce offline collections of the English Wikipedia articles (often for schools), on DVD or flash drive, space is often limited. Therefore we sometimes provide only a selection of articles rather than the full encyclopedia. We can screen out the pornstars and the extreme violence by not selecting articles tagged by certain WikiProjects. (We leave in basic informational articles such as those on human anatomy). However, this approach only works on Wikipedias that use WikiProject tags, such as en and fr. Another issue is when obscene/racist phrases are inserted into otherwise clean articles by vandalism. That's one reason we did the offline project; we used a variation of the WikiTrust tool to select a clean version (RevIDs) of each article. Obviously these collections can't be used where kids are actively editing, but it has its place.