Wikipedia images and pages normally have descriptive titles. If you want to prevent children seeing bad stuff on the internet, set up a web blocker. Mind you, if you want to prevent children seeing bad stuff on the internet, best to raise them in an Amish village.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:05 PM, David Goodman <dgoodma...@gmail.com> wrote: > A child seeing such a page will ordinarily go instead to something > they understand. Unless we're talking about teen-agers. > I see this as an excellent example of the slippery slope we would be > in if we did anything targeted at facilitating censorship, especially > considering the author of the book is a major writer. There are some > elements of these themes in some of his other work also. Do we label > them as well? > > The only sustainable position is that readers can do what they want > with our content. If they can derive a filter for what hey want . (I > don't see how they can for a novel except by putting it specifically > on a blacklist) > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:54 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 25 July 2010 18:17, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> You're right, it is not just about images. If I set up a censored > account for a small child, I should be able to set it up in such a way that > they won't be able to see articles like > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogg_(novel)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogg_%28novel%29>or > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_ball_torture_(sexual_practice)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_ball_torture_%28sexual_practice%29> > >> > >> So, if the child clicks on a wikilink leading there, they would get a > screen saying, "Sorry, >this page is only available to adult accounts." > > > > Child responds by logging out. > > > > > > > > -- > > geni > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > -- > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l