On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/14 Fred Bauder <[email protected]>: >> I suggest that Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not include Wikipedia is not a >> manual of sexual practices. It could be phrased Wikipedia is not the >> Karma Sutra. > > What about pictures of Muhammad? Descriptions of Chinese human rights > violations? Articles about evolution? etc. etc. etc. > > The reason that Wikipedia is not censored is because we cannot censor > one thing and maintain neutrality without censoring everything else > that might offend somebody and we would end up without anything left.
Though technically challenging, I've long believed that the best answer is to develop some system similar to Categories that could be used to flag content that is potentially objectionable on various grounds and then provide the tools to create filtered streams that remove that content. I'd especially like to be able to offer schools a feed that filters out the adult content. Obviously any system that depends on editors to maintain the flags would be imperfect and subject to various issues, but I do think making a good faith effort to provide culturally sensitive variants of Wikipedia would be very useful from a public relations standpoint and allow Wikipedia to reach audiences that might otherwise be excluded. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
