[Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

[geni]

2009/5/14 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/5/14 Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com>:
>
>> I post the suggestion above about tagging articles that may be
>> considered inappropriate by some, because it is better to give people
>> tools to block content if they choose to, than to delete content on
>> that basis.
>
>
> I note that proposals to do blocking-oriented filtering of this sort
> on Wikipedia are perennial proposals that are perennially shot down.
>
> The obvious thing to do would be for a third party to offer a
> filtering service. So far there are no examples, suggesting there is
> negligible demand for such filtering in practice - many individuals
> have said they want filtering, but not so much they want to do the
> work themselves.
>
> (In practice, those considering Wikipedia unsuitable for mass
> consumption write their own encyclopedia site, e.g. Conservapedia or
> Christopedia.)
>
>
> - d.

Part of the problem is there is no good free software to do it.
Adblock can sort of be used to do it but only to an extent.


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geni