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.
That must have been very unpleasant for both of you. However, I would counter with the observation that it's also possible for someone to slip an image cut from a pornographic magazine between the pages of a library book; if that were to happen, we would neither expect nor encourage librarians to stop recommending books. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
