[WikiEN-l] Just to throw this out there...

[Michael Becker]

I suggested the same thing a couple of weeks ago on the Village Pump,
here, I'll go find the area:
Darn it!  I can't find the discussion.  Anyhow, I totally 100% support
this.  I don't think it is censoring.  And while it may not keep us from
getting blocked, it is morally responsible of us.

--
Michael Becker

-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org]
On Behalf Of Jimmy Wales
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9.48
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Just to throw this out there...


Search Engines like google deal with this problem all the time.  You can
find any sort of thing in Google, but you can also search with 'safe
search' turned on, which presumably helps a bit with that problem.

Our job is actually a lot easier than google's in this regard, because
they might link to anything out of billions and billions of pages.  We
only have a few hundred thousand.

We could have a flag or marker for 'content advisory'.  As with Google,
it wouldn't actually stop anyone from clicking on anything. (I don't
suppose curious children are much delayed if they want to see something
on google that is filtered.)

I'm not 100% sure this makes sense, but it *is* a solution favored by a
lot of mainstream websites, and it does have some acceptability on those
grounds.

--Jimbo
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