[WikiEN-l] Re: Filtering, etc.

[Zoe]

--- Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreyerffoeg at yahoo.com> wrote:
>But even though we _may_ mention religion,
> do we _need_ to?

Yes.  This is an encyclopedia which covers all ascepts
of human knowledge.

> I'm thinking on the lines of a
> science-and-math-topics 'pedia -
> religious articles, despite their legality, wouldn't
> be relevant.

But that isn't what Wikipedia is.  If it turned into a
science-and-math-topics encyclopedia, I'd have to
leave, because not only are those topics I have very
little knowledge in, but also very little interest. 
And why are we even discussing this, it isn't going to
happen.


> And if the teacher or school board nukes the whole
> thing? I'm thinking
> based on the axiom _someone's_ going to censor the
> Wikipedia. We have
> the ability to do it ourselves - filter the main
> site, fork to a filter,
> fork a filtered version, etc. The schools don't have
> as much control
> over censoring as we do, and they'll no doubt choose
> false positives
> (even if there are false negatives they haven't
> found yet).

Censorship is not our purpose.  Let the yahoos do
their own censoring and just let us write.

Zoe


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