On Saturday 17 May 2003 13:09, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
I propose a new domain, set up like an international Wikipedia, uncensored.wikipedia.org, to contain all questionable material - pages France doesn't like, pages China doesn't like, pages filtering software doesn't like, etc.
Absolutely not, never, no way, no how. If you'd like to set up your own Censorpedia.org which includes all completely-non-"offensive" content from Wikipedia, be our guest. I don't think you'll have more than about 50 pages, though. :)
Seriously, if your school's anti-knowledge policy is that draconian, they probably would be horrified at the very *idea* of Wikipedia and would block it as dangerous -- since anyone can edit it, clearly there will be sexual predators trying to find children. :P
Complain to the school board about their illegal prior restraint censorship. Find some respectable adults who actually care about education (not just keeping kids intellectually isolated and "safe" until they turn 18) and convince them to run for school board next election.
See also http://www.peacefire.org/
On a side note, do we actually need to upload pictures to every Wikipedia, or can we save disk space by,
Disk space is not the issue so much, just the time & effort factor of copy-upload-copy-upload-copy-upload. See discussion at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia and elsewhere.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)