Just looking into this now: Do you know what template was vandalised? Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
On 8 June 2012 12:38, Andrew West <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 June 2012 20:08, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There are a lot of popular websites listed - but Wikipedia isn't there! > > > > Maybe we could all check out our local libraries, for similar pages, > > and ask the staff to include Wikipedia, if they don't already? > > After my experience on Saturday, when my daughter went to the featured > article of the day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II) and was > greeted by large pornographic images injected into the article through > unprotected templates, if I were were in charge of a library or a > school I would be very hesitant about linking to Wikipedia from my > institute's main page. I know that episodes like this are an > unavoidable consequence of the Wikipedia editing model, and that you > can never entirely eliminate the possibility of offensive vandalism > reaching high profile pages, but it always makes me feel a little > uneasy that we are so keen to promote Wikipedia that we sometimes > forget that Wikipedia is a potentially risky site. > > Of the 200,000+ visitors to the Elizabeth II page on Saturday, when it > was targetted with pornographic template vandalism multiple times, I > wonder how many of those were accessing the site from public computers > in libraries, and what the librarians thought about Wikipedia when > library users notified them of the porn on the Elizabeth II page. And > if this had happened on a schoolday, I wonder how many schools (those > which don't already block Wikipedia) would rethink their policy on > allowing access to Wikipedia. I'm not sure that there is anything > that WMUK can do to make Wikipedia a safer and more trustworthy place, > but we should bear in mind that promoting or even linking to Wikipedia > may not be an acceptable risk for some institutions. > > Andrew [[User:BabelStone]] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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