Gregory Maxwell (gmaxwell@gmail.com) [050330 17:52]:
We may only achieve the attention of some of that audience by reducing our level of rationality... which will ultimately cost us another audience.
Bingo. If this looks like becoming the Jesusland Extremely Abridged Encyclopedia, I will be out of here.
It is very easy for those that care to create censored subsets of the wikipedia. It is not easy to find censored wikipedia articles that don't exist.
Yes.
There's probably a good market in creating a censored Wikipedia - see kids.net.au, which claims to do just that (except it doesn't do very well at it, e.g. http://www.kids.net.au/encyclopedia-wiki/sn/Snowballing ... how unfortunate) - but pre-censoring the original strikes me as a bad idea for the reason you state above.
- d.