[Foundation-l] university blocking wikipedia

[Terin Stock]

Blocked.

fredbaud at waterwiki.info wrote:
> 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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