[WikiEN-l] Britannica quote of the day

[Steve Bennett]

On 3/27/06, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> You are welcome to develop your own external labelling service. Placeopedia
> acts as a linkage between Wikipedia and Google: why not set up something of
> your own for content labelling? Useful information can be found here:
> http://www.w3.org/PICS/#Developers

Scalability would be the problem. We have a million articles, but a
large editor pool too. To tag pages, we would need to harness that
editor pool.

> Hosting this stuff within the Foundations purview would IMNHSO be foolish.

Oh? Why?

> Actually incorporating it into Mediawiki would be suicidal. Imagine the edit
> wars which could be provoked.

Yeah? We have edit wars about silly stuff now. You really think
labelling a page "contains images of naked bodies" is so contentious?

Steve