--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
LittleDan wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
If Edupedia follows the model that Sifter was
planning on,
the main database would remain in one place, at
Wikipedia.
Any separate Edupedia database would only have to
specify
which Wikipedia pages (and maybe which versions) are included in the various categories that it
supports.
To some extent, a <www.edupedia.org> domain will necessitate a separate web interface, but of course it could be very similar to
Wikipedia's.
The bulk of the data, in any case, would be
together.
Jimbo already said (I think) that he would be
willing
to host a project like edupedia. And we certainly can't have the reviewing and viewing on the same domain, because that would defeat the purpose.
Plus,
edupedia wouldn't follow the same model at all.
We'd
actually make a blacklist, not a whitelist like sifter. That's kinda a non-sequetor, though.
I don't think that the colour of the list is a great difference in principle, although you're right that it's not quite the same. I'm not sure what you mean by "reviewing and viewing". The sifters that review Wikipedia content for Edupedia would need special permissions on Edupedia to do this; ordinary users could see only the accepted content (that is those pages that weren't blacklisted), unless they switch over to the other site, Wikipedia. Ordinary users of Edupedia might also edit Wikipedia, by editing Edupedia, which would send the results to Wikipedia. (But they couldn't edit a blacklisted page.)
-- Toby
I was thinking that people would edit the category on Wikipedia (they could manually choose their blocking settings, protected by a seperate password for parents) and edupedia would have the categories all blocked by default (unless the categories included unobjectionable material) with no changing of this with accounts. The categories could only be edited on Wikiedia, not edupedia, so no permissions would be required. -LDan
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