[Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

[David Gerard]

On 9 May 2010 06:09, K. Peachey <p858snake at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> 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).


This came up in discussion a while ago on WHATWG - PICS is actually
dead. Even its creators have given up on it. No-one implements it. As
a standard, it's got no backing. So we'd be the first significant
organisation to actually take it seriously, and would be reviving it.


- d.