[Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

[K. Peachey]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Andrew Garrett <agarrett at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> It is *NOT* *OUR* *ROLE* to decide what is and is not "appropriate"
> for children to view on our website. That role is to be discharged
> solely by parents and supervisors of those children.
>
> The *ONLY* rating and classification system that I can support is a
> descriptive one. That is, it describes the nature of the content, and
> allows humans or computers to filter it accordingly. The
> infrastructure would be technically simple.
Bugzilla 982[1]  MediaWiki should support ICRA's PICS content labeling.
>From my understanding without reading much about it, It [ICRA] is ment
to be a "international" or at least a standard for these things which
most people seem to abide by (i see it splashed around on a lot of
education sites that they are compliant with that standard).

-Peachey

[1]. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982