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|Thread-Topic: [Wikipedia-l] Family filters are not NPOV
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|From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com>
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|Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:40:30 -0500
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|> 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
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|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
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|Ed Poor
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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