[WikiEN-l] "Our school board decided to block Wikipedia..."

[Gary Kirk]

Interesting. Our IT people  have (temporarily at least) blocked
everything *but* the English Wikipedia and bbc.co.uk. Incredibly
foolish because you cannot now check references or anything external
(unless it's at *.bbc.co.uk of course).

On 14/04/07, Will <sceptre at tintower.co.uk> wrote:
> My school blocked Wikipedia in February.
>
> The Sheila Broflofski-like head of IT (i.e. more focused on profanity than
> pornography or violence, demonstrated in me nearly getting expelled for use
> of the word fuck in a forum, while people who looked at porn and uploaded
> graphical violence to youtube got nothing) then decided to blame all the
> vandalism and abuse of it on me (even though the school had been blocked for
> eight months, and I was the only prolific editor), causing me to get a load
> of harassment from other students.
>
> Will
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Gary Kirk