|content-class: urn:content-classes:message |X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 |X-MS-Has-Attach: |X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: |Thread-Topic: [Wikipedia-l] Family filters are not NPOV |Thread-Index: AcKL98IiaFqLjQvlSYKnE4rHYideUAADPUhQ |From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com |X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Nov 2002 17:40:31.0080 (UTC) FILETIME=[ED6B8680:01C28C04] |X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by www.wikipedia.org id gAEICDh14505 |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:40:30 -0500 | |> 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 | |I think Larry's sifter idea for a gnupedia fits the bill. Come join the discussion by visiting http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/sifter-l | |Ed Poor |

It doesn't fit my bill because it is anti-open-source. I would prefer a method that uses the Wikipedia. Then this sifter project would draw on the Wikipedia and so could anybody else.

Tom P. O88