[WikiEN-l] Re: Filtering, etc.

[Stan Shebs]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>
>Again, I ask you to think not of schools and their issues, but of me
>and my issues.  I'm a modern person offended by almost nothing.  And
>yet, I wouldn't like to be showing my mother wikipedia and say, o.k.,
>here is how you edit, and over here is where people can see the recent
>changes, and OH MY!!, er, well, uh, really, this isn't about porn, ma.
>
My first reaction on seeing one of the sex articles was "whoa!",
and the second reaction was "OK, this is a serious encyclopedia,
it has *everything*."  Have you actually showed your mother
wikipedia?  If not, her reaction might surprise you.

I'm doubtful about the metadata idea, tags will become lightning
rods for POV dispute or be ignored.  I suspect that a bit of
linkage analysis will show the problematic articles fall into a
self-referencing group, and if so the nice folks implementing
bowdlerpedia.org can use that to filter the "bad" articles and
keep the "good" ones.

Stan