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Are Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons appropriate for K-8 students to use?

[Peter Damian]

Mark Janssen, Dreamer-Pragmatist.
3 votes by Michael Fine, Brandon Harris, and Richard Symonds
While I appreciate the concern over children, I have to wonder is the world appropriate for kids? I mean, the world is 99% an "adult"-centered place. A child has more danger being hit and killed by a car crossing the street than being damaged by an image or article in Wikipedia.

Education is probably better than censorship, unless a opt-in filter is trivial enough to install. Otherwise the danger is that you create an "insulated garden" of a society that gives an incomplete (at best) or numb view of the world.Suggest Edits

BTW this comment is quite stupid. Nobody is arguing that a kid could get hit by a car in a big city, but what it has to do with exposing children to pornography at the site that should provide education.

I nearly suggested adding some interesting books on autofellatio to our local primary school library. Also that they remove that silly steel gate outside the playground which creates a nasty 'insulated garden' that gives the 9 year olds such an incomplete view of the world. But then I thought puritans like Larry and the rest would have a go at me.