|From: Imran Ghory imran@bits.bris.ac.uk |Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:28:18 +0000 (GMT) | |On 13 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote: | |> > Does this mean the NPOV is violated if a meta tag is inserted |> > to allow parents to filter out detailed specific information |> > and blueprints on bomb building? |> |> YES! By establishing a standard of what information may be desired to be |> filtered by parents and which information may not, we are grossly |> violating NPOV. What if a hypothetical parent wanted their children to be |> isolated from religious ideas? | |Then they could do so easily by filtering out pages with the words |God/Demon/Christ/occult/belief. However this will also get pages which |aren't about religous ideas filtered. | |Labelling isn't to let people filter more, it's to let people filter less |by letting them use more advanced methods (Labelling as opposed to |keyword search). | |In the long term we want some generalized categorization system, but in |the short term we should move towards that goal by providing |categorization where it is most needed. | |Imran |-- |http://bits.bris.ac.uk/imran |
Shouldn't we be encouraging and facilitating filtering? That is, isn't there a model of the Wikipedia that says people can take our Wikipedia and make their own version? There certainly is a possibility of filtering everything but popular culture, ending up with brilliant coverage of the Simpsons and Tolkein, say, or a science and technology filter, or (wait for it) a gazeteer about all the little towns in America. In that context, why shouldn't people also filter out smut, or Christianity, or whatever?
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88