The first two paragraphs you wrote seem to suggest that the knowledge in Wikipedia is two dangerous for ordinary school children like Geoffrey and I, and the next paragraphs explain that that's not the case, it's just that we are insignifigant.
I think neither is the case. We schoolkids should have the right to use wikipedia, and that should be high on our list of priorities. I think we should impliment the system of categorization suggested wherin each article can be categorized as "sexually contravercial", "religiously contravercial," etc. There could also be some other website where these pages classified as contravercial were these were by default blocked, say, edupedia.org (open, i checked), and it would operate off of the same database. Maybe also all editing and talk pages would be blocked, as schools would think students shouldn't be editing an encycloprdia. I see nothing wrong with this idea except extra work for categorization and programming, but that is a considerable problem. If necessary, I could pay for the domain name.
--LittleDan
Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com wrote: The most effective and deadly weapons are banned from civilian hands (Armored personnel vehicles, Combat aircraft, heat-guided rocket launchers, grenades, C-4, full-auto M-16s (the list goes on)), and they are the ones professionals prefer, because of their effectiveness in their intended area of use.
Likewise the W, as a comprehensive resource of unbiased, in-depth, well-referenced and pored over the world over tool of learning and referencey, would make any entity that is unconfortable with anthing except their own version of the truth du jour wish to curtail its use among the more tender member of its society.
I would rather the W become famous among leading geneticists and PHDs in history than among 9 graders.
I would *like* 9 graders to be able to use it, but not at the expense of seeming to the rest of the world to be a water-pistol in a world of precision-guided munition.
===== Christopher Mahan
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