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

[Brion Vibber]

El 5/14/09 4:14 PM, Mike.lifeguard escribió:
> While this may be true for Wikipedia (English Wikipedia?), it is
> certainly not true of Wikimedia project generally. For example,
> Wikibooks has a subproject Wikijunior which is an attempt to create
> high-quality children's books. Part of the defined scope here is that
> the books are appropriate for children. While I despise censorship (cf
> my recent posts, or my statements on Commons) this is commendable in my
> mind. Though I don't participate in generating content for Wikijunior on
> a regular basis, I do think it is a worthwhile project, and is an
> important alternative to be mentioned during such discussions.

Spiffy! Sounds like it needs more lovin' and attention, I forgot it was 
even there. ;)

> There is
> a safe sandbox at Wikijunior (well, semi-safe, English Wikibooks still
> gets vandalism, though we now have FlaggedRevs [which could use a config
> change; it's in bugzilla :D]

Found it in the general sea of issues and have moved it to Rob's work 
queue. :)

-- brion

) where people concerned with such things
> can generate appropriately-censored content for children.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 10:29 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
>
>> Slippery-slope arguments aside, it seems unfortunate that as creators of
>> "educational resources" we don't actually have anything that's being
>> created with a children's audience in mind -- Wikipedia is primarily
>> being created *by adults for adults*.
>>
>> That's fine for us grown-ups but we're missing an important part of the
>> educational "market". Like it or not, part of creating educational
>> material for children is cultural sensitivity: you need to make
>> something that won't freak out their parents.
>
>
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