Indeed - the danger is that someone browsing through http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Young_women (not a great look for how wikimedia feels about young women) ends up somewhere like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Erotic (or more explicit!)
and feels that maybe these images shouldn't be available in schools. cheers, Peter PM. On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > What you did get quoted as saying was good (as PrivateMusings said), and it > is a shame that what you just described was cut ou - especially the bit > about critical evaluation. It really is unfortunate that they can make a > news item about one parent who happens to stumble upon vandalism in an > article about a children's book. They did note that they vandalism was > removed quickly, but quite a long way down the page. I think if we get this > kind of thing in the future then we should emphasise the fact of "the speed > at which 'bad things' are removed demonstrates the system working and shows > that we are trying hard to improve." > > -Liam > > wittylama.com/blog > Sent from Sydney, Nsw, Australia > > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Brianna Laugher < > brianna.laug...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2009/5/24 private musings <thepmacco...@gmail.com>: >> > see >> > >> http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/parents-warned-of-wikiporn-risk/2009/05/23/1242498976065.html >> > >> > Unfortunately it's not a good news one, dealing with 'Wikiporn risk' - >> but I >> > think a 'well done' to brianna for sounding wise and sensible in a >> difficult >> > situation is due :-) >> >> Thanks, although this is just a completely bog-standard vandalism >> story (with a local angle, and some unrelated internet filtering news >> tacked on the end). I was actually told that parents/students had been >> told by the school/teachers to use Wikipedia - which I was naturally >> surprised to hear - although this story says the opposite. >> >> And for the record I said I could *not* speak on behalf of >> "Wikipedia", and I'm sure I would have said that readers needed to be >> able to critically evaluate what they are reading, not just be >> informed about the pitfalls. But I'll chalk those bits up to the power >> of the soundbite. :) >> >> Brianna >> >> -- >> They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: >> http://modernthings.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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