On Monday, 18 June 2012 at 02:44, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > Every stupid bot could do this. There is no "running out of the box" > solution at the moment, but the effort to set up something like this > would be minimal compared to anything else. > > I would say that Citizendium failed because they did no automatic > updating. What i have in mind is delayed mirror with update control. It > is not meant to be edited by hand. It is a subset of the current content > selected by the host (one or many users) of the page himself. It is > essentially a whitelist for Wikipedia that only contains > selected/checked content. That way a "childrens Wiki" could easily be > created, by not including any unwanted content, while the effort stays > minimal. (Not more effort then to create your own book from a list of > already written articles)
{{sofixit}} If all the people in favour of filters had spent their time building them rather than arguing about them, we would have had a wide array of different solutions, without any politics or drama. That said, if people want to filter Wikipedia, a client-side solution rather than a filtered mirror is preferable. If a filtered mirror were to come into existence and become popular, this would mean that people would just filter all of main Wikipedia, which would prevent people from editing Wikipedia. A client-side solution means they are still looking at wikipedia.org just without naughty pics and doesn't interfere with editing. It also reduces the need for any servers. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l