Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 21:59, 28 June 2013

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Schools Misplaced Pages

Okay, I have to ask - what exactly is "Schools Misplaced Pages", and why are you committing temporary vandalism on some articles to remove "explicit content"? Elizium23 (talk) 17:17, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi there, Elizium23. I work for an international children's charity called SOS Children (you can visit our site at http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk, and we are currently in the throes of preparing a new, fourth edition of a project called Misplaced Pages for Schools (or Schools Misplaced Pages). Schools Misplaced Pages is a selection of articles from Misplaced Pages organised around the UK national curriculum and including other articles which may be of use or interest to children. It can be browsed online at http://schools-wikipedia.org (this currently takes you to the 2008/9 selection) and is also available offline and distributed to schools in developing countries where internet access is limited. Previous version have been released offline on CD and DVD, although the new version will be released onto USB stick. All content is manually checked for suitability for children schoolchildren aged 11-15, and because of the range of countries where it is used, we have to be fairly conservative when editing the text. Generally, unsuitable content can be removed without requiring interference with the original Misplaced Pages site via our editing software, but occasionally (and this is where you come in!), the easiest thing to do is to edit the live Misplaced Pages page and then self-revert immediately and then upload the clean variant. Sorry if this is a somewhat rambling answer to your question, but I hope it explains why I've been removing and then immediately re-adding supposedly "explicit content" from the site, although I think (hope!) "vandalism" is a rather extreme interpretation! Misplaced Pages for Schools is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, after all! You can read more at http://www.sos-schools.org/wikipedia-for-schools, and visit the test site of the new edition at http://schools-wikipedia-test.soschildren.org/.