[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[Andre Engels]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 September 2011 11:02, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
>
> > On 05/09/2011 10:55 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> > > As to why no-one is distributing a "filtered" version of Wikipedia, I
> > > think that falls more under the general heading of "where are the
> > > major third-party reusers that anyone actually cares about?" - the
> > > non-existence of a commercial filtered version is less of a surprise
> > > when we consider the dearth of commercial packaged versions at all...
> >
> > You'd think a "safe" version would be a valuable service that many would
> > be willing to pay for, given the hordes of people beating down our doors
> > demanding just that...
> >
> > oh, wait.
> >
> >
>
> They already exist, and have for years.  We call them "mirrors.
>

Yes, but most mirrors are just that - mirrors. As far as I know, there is no
Wikipedia mirror that actually contains extra functionality - like improved
searching, wisiwyg editing, automatic translation, image filtering, or
whatever else one could think of.


-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com