<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />EXCLUSIVE: Wikipedia ignores fix for porn problem
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Wikipedia has turned down a more or less free offer for software that would keep minors and unsuspecting web surfers from stumbling upon graphic images of sex organs, acts and emissions, FoxNews.com has learned -- sexually explicit images that remain ...

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Wonderful stuff. They have no problem wasting millions of dollars in trying to sue Wikia like companies and lose copyright infringement cases, but can't bother with something that the majority of the Wiki people asked for.

Did the majority do so? I thought that they surveyed a number of Wikis and whilst some like the Arabic one favoured a filter, most of the bigger European language sites dominated by the "information wants to be free" brigade, such as the German Wiki, opposed it. That was why the board backed away from the commitment that they had previously made.

The results are clear. 56.29% said yes, 11.73% were neutral. That means opposition was less than 33%. There was really obvious consensus and it was spread across every Wiki. The only way the German Wiki was able to say no was to have a public vote where members bullied others. It also had a lot lower turnout than the anonymous poll.

My mistake. Thanks for the link. Okay so they must be claiming a lack of consensus.

The interesting thing is the cultural polarisation. All the languags with averages less than 5 are spoken almost entirely in Europe. All those with average above 7 are Asian (although Arabic extends into North Africa). Hebrew falls in with the Asian languages which explains why there is a company in Israel with a ready-to-roll webfilter.

Anti-imperialists could enjoy themselves with this one as an imposition of Western values on the wishes of the more populous parts of the world.

I used that as a counter to the Europeans saying the filter would be imposed by evil Americans.