El 5/14/09 4:14 PM, Mike.lifeguard escribió: > While this may be true for Wikipedia (English Wikipedia?), it is > certainly not true of Wikimedia project generally. For example, > Wikibooks has a subproject Wikijunior which is an attempt to create > high-quality children's books. Part of the defined scope here is that > the books are appropriate for children. While I despise censorship (cf > my recent posts, or my statements on Commons) this is commendable in my > mind. Though I don't participate in generating content for Wikijunior on > a regular basis, I do think it is a worthwhile project, and is an > important alternative to be mentioned during such discussions.
Spiffy! Sounds like it needs more lovin' and attention, I forgot it was even there. ;) > There is > a safe sandbox at Wikijunior (well, semi-safe, English Wikibooks still > gets vandalism, though we now have FlaggedRevs [which could use a config > change; it's in bugzilla :D] Found it in the general sea of issues and have moved it to Rob's work queue. :) -- brion ) where people concerned with such things > can generate appropriately-censored content for children. > > -Mike > > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 10:29 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote: > >> Slippery-slope arguments aside, it seems unfortunate that as creators of >> "educational resources" we don't actually have anything that's being >> created with a children's audience in mind -- Wikipedia is primarily >> being created *by adults for adults*. >> >> That's fine for us grown-ups but we're missing an important part of the >> educational "market". Like it or not, part of creating educational >> material for children is cultural sensitivity: you need to make >> something that won't freak out their parents. > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l