Fred Bauder wrote:
There is some risk to teachers using or recommending
Wikipedia, but as has
been pointed out santitizing the entire encyclopedia to satisfy all possible
conservative viewpoints is both impractical and undesirable.
Fred
You are correct, but that risk is no greater than allowing students to
access Google. The problem is that schools that use something like N2H2,
which maintains a database of blocked sites, sorted by the category they
were blocked under (pornographic, tasteless, drug related, gambling
related, etc.) they might have no other way of filtering out the parts
of Wikipedia they don't agree with other than to block the domain. I
think we might be able to avoid this by using Nudity somewhere in the
URL (maybe [[Image:Nudity/Peyronie_disease.jpg]]), so they can filter
out specific portions of the encyclopedia. I see this as akin to the
practice of masking nude images behind a link with a warning. This is
just a warning for filtering software.
--cprompt