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

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

--- Axel Boldt <axelboldt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:
> > Toby Bartels wrote:
> 
> > > If we have an Edupedia website built on a Sifter
> model,
> > > then schools can block Wikipedia as long as they
> don't block
> > > Edupedia.
> > 
> > And that would be very unfortunate, I think.
> 
> There's one question we haven't investigated yet:
> would our filtering
> really lower the likelihood that schools will
> eventually block us
> completely? 
> 
> I doubt that we could ever create a system that even
> comes close to 
> preventing school kids from getting the Wikipedia
> content they want. 
> At one point, a school administrator will find
> objectionable content in
> Wikipedia, will investigate the filtering option
> with the various
> categories, and will realize that kids can still get
> to the
> objectionable pages, e.g. by typing in the direct
> URL. Then our whole
> domain will be blocked.
> 
> Axel

No, Edupedia would be on a seperate domain
(edupedia.org, not yet owned) to prevent just that
blocking.
-ld

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