While this may be true for Wikipedia (English Wikipedia?), it is certainly not true of Wikimedia project generally. For example, Wikibooks has a subproject Wikijunior which is an attempt to create high-quality children's books. Part of the defined scope here is that the books are appropriate for children. While I despise censorship (cf my recent posts, or my statements on Commons) this is commendable in my mind. Though I don't participate in generating content for Wikijunior on a regular basis, I do think it is a worthwhile project, and is an important alternative to be mentioned during such discussions. There is a safe sandbox at Wikijunior (well, semi-safe, English Wikibooks still gets vandalism, though we now have FlaggedRevs [which could use a config change; it's in bugzilla :D]) where people concerned with such things can generate appropriately-censored content for children.
-Mike On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 10:29 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote: > Slippery-slope arguments aside, it seems unfortunate that as creators of > "educational resources" we don't actually have anything that's being > created with a children's audience in mind -- Wikipedia is primarily > being created *by adults for adults*. > > That's fine for us grown-ups but we're missing an important part of the > educational "market". Like it or not, part of creating educational > material for children is cultural sensitivity: you need to make > something that won't freak out their parents. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
