Re: [Wikimediaau-l] education projects and suitability of wmf projects in schools

2010-06-17 Thread Liam Wyatt
When you start quoting Sanger's recent spray against Wikipedia to back up your argument then you know you've got larger problems Seriously - whilst I think it's an important issue that Wikipedia needs to be aware of how children could be affected by seeing adult material on Wikipedia (and how

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] education projects and suitability of wmf projects in schools

2010-06-17 Thread private musings
I'm pretty involved in discussions in this area in various contexts, and I support a tool which allows end-users to filter content, but I don't see it on the horizon anywhere - are you aware of such tools nearing readiness? (do you, Liam, support such a tool by the way - I'm not 100% clear on that

[Wikimediaau-l] education projects and suitability of wmf projects in schools

2010-06-16 Thread private musings
G'day all, I wonder if we might find a good spot to have a discussion, as a chapter, about some of the issues relating to the explicit content hosted on Wikimedia Foundation projects (notably commons) and how it impacts education outreach in general. Maybe some principles are easier to distill on