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

[Peter Jacobi]

Hi David, All,

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

This is just a sub-item of a pet peeve of mine. Why aren't there
successfull mirrors for
reading Wikipedia? There is obviously room for enhancement in the
Wikipedia reading
experience, and a customizable parental control would be only one of
possibilities. If
done well enough, users would tolerate mild advertising in exchange
and so it seems
to be a valid business model.

WMF should even be thankful for lessening the load to their servers.


Regards,
Peter