On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> IMHO any restriction that's not present in the default view isn't likely >> to accomplish much. The answer an objecting parent wants to "my daughter >> saw a lady with semen on her neck on your website" is *not* "you should >> have told her to log in and check 'no sexual imagery' in her profile"! > <snip> > > I would suggest that a "child-safe" version of Wikipedia be cloaked > with its own domain syntax in a way similar to secure.wikimedia.org. > That would allow schools and parents to block the main site while > providing access to an alternative that they might find more > acceptable. > > Since domain level filtering is already commonly employed by many > software packages I don't think that would be an unreasonable thing to > ask. Choosing what filtered views of Wikipedia to provide at a domain > level would require some discussion of course as well as some form of > social agreement about what content belongs behind the filter. Not > easy issues at all, but making a good faith effort to address them > would be huge in my mind. > > -Robert Rohde
I don't have much to add, but I want to voice my strong agreement. Some sort of serious effort to reach out to the many users who don't share the outlook of our more-libertarian-than-the-general-population community is long overdue. -Sage (User:Ragesoss) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l