[Foundation-l] university blocking wikipedia

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 04:32:07 UTC 2007


Terin are you sure about that? I grew up in Palm Beach County, and I  
go back to speak at my old high school every now and then and I  
didn't have any problem accessing Wikipedia.

-Dan Rosenthal

On Oct 2, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Terin Stock wrote:

> 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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