Axel Boldt wrote:
There's one question we haven't investigated
yet: would our filtering
really lower the likelihood that schools will eventually block us
completely?
I have some experience with filtering software. For sites like ours,
what is likely is that specific pages will be blocked automatically
based on keyword analysis, but that the site as a whole will not.
I doubt that we could ever create a system that even
comes close to
preventing school kids from getting the Wikipedia content they want.
At one point, a school administrator will find objectionable content in
Wikipedia, will investigate the filtering option with the various
categories, and will realize that kids can still get to the
objectionable pages, e.g. by typing in the direct URL. Then our whole
domain will be blocked.
Possibly, but it really depends on the software they are using.
Sometimes blocks are that crude, but more often, they are not.
--Jimbo