On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Phil Nash <phn...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> MZMcBride wrote: > > If someone wants to make Conservative Wikipedia or Kid-Friendly > > Wikipedia or Tiananmen Square-Free Wikipedia, they're free to. They > > can even sell it. Contributors made that deal long ago with the open > > license of the sites. > > > > Wikimedia's goal is to provide free educational content to the world. > > The world is then free to make its own filters ("personal bubbles") > > or even impose them on others (in the workplace, at school, at public > > libraries), but not with Wikimedia's help or harm. Wikimedia should > > remain neutral in the matter. The content is available and it is > > possible to fork and/or filter with technology today. (And, in fact, > > some places undoubtedly already filter particular Wikipedia titles, > > ineffective as some of these approaches surely are.) Leave the issue > > to third parties / a free market. If there's really demand for > > School-Friendly Wikipedia, someone will make it. But it's not > > Wikimedia's place to say who should and shouldn't have access to the > > sum of all human knowledge and what particular pieces of it > > constitute (graphic violence, pornography, etc.). > > > > MZMcBride > > Don't [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Simple] and > [http://schools-wikipedia.org/ Schools Wikipedia] fulfil that goal? > Perhaps > I've missed the point you are making, but also, perhaps, WMF should make it > clear that alternatives exist, and this is not a case of censorship, rather > than targetting an approriate readership. They are different, simple wiki is a different content project and schools-wikipedia is a sanitized, hand-picked, individually collected version from past dumps for schools, as in a not up-to-date version (2008/9). MZ is referring to bubbles- certain governments, corporations, schools etc. can make to protect their own standards and effectively live in bubbles themselves, without any involvement from Wikimedia. I absolutely agree that Wikimedia should remain neutral in this matter. The sum of all human knowledge can not and should not, be sanitized or censored for anyone. If there is a clear need for it, someone will fill it until then it is our responsibility to remain completely open, unbiased and neutral. Theo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l