[Foundation-l] university blocking wikipedia

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

Is it blocked, or just not linked?

Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: Terin Stock [mailto:terin.stock at wikinewsie.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 04:07 PM
To: 'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] university blocking wikipedia

I know the Palm Beach County Public School district in Palm Beach, 
Florida activity blocks all access to Wikipedia, under the "Educational 
Sites" category. I've talked with some teachers, they suggest using 
answers.com as a solution. Most of the teachers also raised concerns 
about blocking of other useful websites, both from the teacher's and 
student's standpoint.

That said, it seems that the only Wikimedia site blocked is Wikipedia. 
And isn't answers.com just a sql dump of Wikipedia? Do they have editors 
that check the articles on their site?

C F wrote:
> On 10/2/07, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Unis have *been blocked* by wikipedia when they hosted active vandals.
>> That's different.
> 
> I'm assuming what the OP said was that the Us blocked wp, and not that
> the Us were blocked by WP.
> 
> In any event this is just a rumor as long as the OP only heard about
> it, it hasn't really happened.
> 
> 
>> SJ
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, dan harp wrote:
>>
>>> just heard an odd thing from a peer @ the high school
>>> I work at.
>>>
>>> "Many major universities have blocked wikipedia"
>>>
>>> thought I would throw it out to the community and get
>>> a bit of direction to research - I find the
>>> possibility odd.
>>>
>>>
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