[Foundation-l] university blocking wikipedia

[Terin Stock]

Oh, come on... I'm a Wikinewsie. Yes, I'm sure, Wikipedia for sure is 
blocked.

Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> 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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