--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)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
, not yet owned) to prevent just that
blocking.
-ld
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