2009/5/14 David Gerard <[email protected]>: > 2009/5/14 Oldak Quill <[email protected]>: > >> I post the suggestion above about tagging articles that may be >> considered inappropriate by some, because it is better to give people >> tools to block content if they choose to, than to delete content on >> that basis. > > > I note that proposals to do blocking-oriented filtering of this sort > on Wikipedia are perennial proposals that are perennially shot down. > > The obvious thing to do would be for a third party to offer a > filtering service. So far there are no examples, suggesting there is > negligible demand for such filtering in practice - many individuals > have said they want filtering, but not so much they want to do the > work themselves. > > (In practice, those considering Wikipedia unsuitable for mass > consumption write their own encyclopedia site, e.g. Conservapedia or > Christopedia.) > > > - d.
Part of the problem is there is no good free software to do it. Adblock can sort of be used to do it but only to an extent. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
