On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:38:43 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:53:06 +0600, Arno M redgum46@lycos.com wrote:
these always were unsuitable to minors.
Wikipedia is a wiki. That means _anyone_ can edit it, including those people who like to prey on children. Wikipedia is not suitable for minors and will be banned from schools soon enough anyway in the same way that chat rooms are banned from schools.
Wikipedia is an adult encylopedia, and should cater for adults.
Theresa
I wouldn't like to see some Wikipedians give up on imposing some sort of respectability though. It'd be nice to have some sort of standards. I don't care whether people choose to call that censorship or not. OK many Wikipedians perhaps believe in complete unrestricted freedom in what gets put on Wikipedia (although I think most have specific topics they have "views" on), but we can't ignore that Wikipedia should cater to at least a reasonable section of the "mainstream". I think people will realise that there are articles on Wikipedia at the moment that don't remotely live up to a standard acceptable to an appreciable "mainstream" segment.
If people continue to insist on no "good taste" standards, people will stop visiting Wikipedia, and it will just become a world-wide distributed hobby.
As it is, image vandalism (yes that is not our doing, but it's damn near an unacceptable problem with some of the stuff that's been put up) and content issues would make me think twice about recommending friends or family to visit Wikipedia (particularly those who aren't my peers/contemporaries).
Zoney