My hospital IT department has become more draconian as of late. Was attempting to make changes to "breast thermography" an imaging technique for breast cancer to discover that websense considers it nudity. Had a discussion with IT and they concluded that they can be off no help.
What sort of measures is the Wikimedia movement taking to address these sorts of issues? The work around I will be using is the running of TightVNC Portable Edition off of a USB stick to control my home computer over the cloud.
I have found another work around. It appears that websense does not block the secure Wikipedia and thus I can edit on that.
James Heilman
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:06 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
My hospital IT department has become more draconian as of late. Was attempting to make changes to "breast thermography" an imaging technique for breast cancer to discover that websense considers it nudity. Had a discussion with IT and they concluded that they can be off no help.
What sort of measures is the Wikimedia movement taking to address these sorts of issues? The work around I will be using is the running of TightVNC Portable Edition off of a USB stick to control my home computer over the cloud.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:06 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
My hospital IT department has become more draconian as of late. Was attempting to make changes to "breast thermography" an imaging technique for breast cancer to discover that websense considers it nudity. Had a discussion with IT and they concluded that they can be off no help.
What sort of measures is the Wikimedia movement taking to address these sorts of issues? The work around I will be using is the running of TightVNC Portable Edition off of a USB stick to control my home computer over the cloud.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
James,
Thank you for bringing this up. The impact of Internet monitoring and filters at work on Wikipedia editing is actually in the draft questions for this summer's research in the Community Dept. at the Foundation.[1]
You feel free to dive in there with your thoughts, if you want to expand on them or perhaps just link to your post.
1. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Research:How_does_exogenous...
Steven Walling
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org