--- Christopher Mahan <chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
For wikipedia to be an valid educational source,
it
needs to have some kind of approval system. From
what
I understand, this has been discussed since Day 1
of
Wikipedia, but I think it is time to impliment
it.
If
wikipedia is ever to be printed or used in
schools, it
must be scrutinized and validated (or
invalidated)
on
an article-by-article basis.
you mean the way google results are?
Sorry for being flippant, but isn't our process,
worldwide and by
real experts actually better and less prone to
ceonsorship than
state-sponsored child-proofing committees?
=====
Christopher Mahan
chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com
818.943.1850 cell
Indeed, a search for clitoris on Google brings up much
worse results, but a search for peryonie's disease
brings up no pictures or diagrams whatsoever on the
condition. We need to stay somewhere in the middle.
I'm sorry for the comment on my previous post; when I
talk about wikipedia in schools, I usually try to
think realistically. But you have a point. Maybe
Wikipedia needs to be shown to schools somehow. Google
and the internet have demonstrated to be good
educational resources; now we should do the same.
There could be a side project, say,
edu.wikipedia.org,
that we would set aside for educational purposes,
although not censored much, if at all (although porn
is still not allowed). The goal would be to have 1000
articles simple enough for the 10-year-old interested
in diseases to understand, yet still complete, and
with no broken links. Then, we could have a sample for
schools and educational institutions to look at, as a
sample for when Wikipedia is complete. The small
number of articles would keep each article in great
shape, reducing the need for designated editing and
approval commitees. The 1000 articles would each hold
information previously spread over many articles, as
many "real" encyclopedias do. There would be no rambot
pages or anything made by a bot. Even though there
would be only 1000 articles, an infinite number of
redirect pages would be allowed. Would this plan work?
I change my opinion far too frequently.
--LittleDan
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