[Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

geni geniice at gmail.com
Fri May 7 21:04:47 UTC 2010


On 7 May 2010 20:30, Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net> wrote:
> Having said that, the Wikimedia projects are intended to be educational
> in nature, and there is no place in the projects for material that has
> no educational or informational value.

Err the user namespace? the project namespace?

>In saying this, we don't intend
> to create new policy, but rather to reaffirm and support policy that
> already exists.  We encourage Wikimedia editors to scrutinize potentially
> offensive materials with the goal of assessing their educational or
> informational value, and to remove them from the projects if there is no
> such value.

Given the overwelming majority of projects have no such policy the
statement would appear to be flawed. For example what policy would you
suggests applies on be.wikipedia ?


-- 
geni



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