I have two technical points regarding filtering, and a more fundamental one.
Jimbo, once you have checked all the categories to exclude from your mom's Wikipedia experience, what is actually going to happen? I suppose searches for those topics will return nothing. Links on RecentChanges to these topics will be suppressed. How about links on non-blocked pages to blocked ones? Will the hyperlinks simply turn into regular text? "Why Jimbo my dear, have you ever heard about this, 'felching'?" :-)
Now, to prevent an explosion of categories, all slightly different and designed for different constituencies, turning the system into a useless mess, you'll have to limit the available categories somewhat. There will then very likely emerge one category which most well-meaning sons, school administrators and parents are going to block; say it's "sexual content". Can you imagine the ensuing fights about which articles to label as "sexual content"? Admittedly, (now that we all know what it is,) [[felching]] won't cause a problem. But how about [[contraception]], [[AIDS]], [[breast]], [[homosexuality]], [[homophobia]], [[menstrual cycle]], [[puberty]], [[pregnancy]]?
Now my real point. "Young people are constantly exposed to half-truths about sexuality by smirking older boys in the schoolyard, by the media, by internet porn sites. In Wikipedia, we cover those topics in a respectful, truthful and neutral way. Take it or leave it."
Axel
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