--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
If we have an Edupedia website built on a Sifter model, then schools can block Wikipedia as long as they don't block Edupedia.
And that would be very unfortunate, I think.
There's one question we haven't investigated yet: would our filtering really lower the likelihood that schools will eventually block us completely?
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.
Axel
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