[Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

[private musings]

I (think / hope) that what I'm suggesting is certainly not censorship in any
way - more just the reasonable expectation that some of our content may
raise an eyebrow in schools - and that it's a good idea to be mindful of
this in our communications and work with them.

By way of further illustration, here's an example of a good faith
contributor at commons compiling a collection of some of his favourite
shots;

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TwoWings/Fav#Sexy

I think we're all big enough and ugly enough to accept that there's nothing
wrong with this sort of thing, and that it's normal to enjoy eroticism - I
think it's also perfectly fair enough for schools to want to be a bit
careful with how they interact with this sort of material - maybe it's as
simple as saying 'look, there's actually quite a lot of images on various
wiki projects that you might not want your pupils to see / share / collect -
and here's how you can help achieve this' - back to the directed projects,
supervised access etc. I guess.....

best,

Peter
PM.

another example doing the rounds is this one - 'not safe for work';
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shaved_genitalia_(female)

(by the way - if something's 'not safe for work' - presumably it's 'not safe
for schools' either? dunno!)


2008/12/10 Gnangarra <gnangarra at gmail.com>

> Lets look at this differently, Wikipedia/Foundation is about providing free
> access to all knowledge, how could someone who supports the project consider
> promoting censorship of the information?
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> 2008/12/10 Gnangarra <gnangarra at gmail.com>
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>> 2008/12/10 private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com>
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>>>
>>>
>>> <snip> though I would prefer there were better systems in place to ensure
>>> that the images are legal (ie. models consenting and of age), and that (per
>>> Nick) folk have some opportunity to self-select. I'd be inclined to support
>>> a flickr like 'please click here to indicate that you're of age to view this
>>> material' sort of thing, I think.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yep and every kid is going to just tick such a box anyway, the intention
>> of the box is to dimish responsibility of the provider not to protect the
>> viewer.
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>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Peter
>>> PM.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:28 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I must say, there's a certain appeal to attempting to forbid kids from
>>>> reading encyclopedias, so they'll think it's cool.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - d.
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