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Wikipedia's goal is to offer knowledge for many different things, in a format which is legal to copy, modify, and redistribute (copyleft, as we call it) to all, at no cost. We hope you will find huge educational value within this project; and among our millions of articles, you will certainly find many relevant to almost all areas of study. No encyclopedia should be the end of the line in any research, however, and we hope you'll find our articles useful road maps for further exploration across a whole range of subjects. Although there are policies and guidelines for content, Wikipedia is freely editable by everyone, so inaccuracy and vandalism are problems that the project faces on a daily basis. A number of safeguards are in effect. These include insisting that editors cite reliable sources, as well as Recent Changes Patrolling for vandalism, and New Page Patrolling for recently created articles with inappropriate content.

This page and its subpages (linked pages) are intended to help parents, guardians, teachers, and other adults consider the best way to allow children they are responsible for to engage with Wikipedia safely and enjoyably. There is also a development area at Child protection. Read more about privacy, confidentiality and discretion on Wikipedia.

Contents

  • 1 Wikipedia content
  • 2 Wikipedia community
  • 3 See also
  • 4 External links

Wikipedia content

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Wikipedia is not censored, which in practice means that in relevant areas throughout the site, you will find possibly distressing or offensive content and pictures showing subjects like violence, nudity, sexual activity or controversial topics. Such material is present in a small percentage of articles. Editors range widely both in age and in cultural background, and as such, profanity is also prevalent in some areas of content and discussions. See Wikipedia:Uncensored and Wikipedia:Offensive material for more information.

It is possible to configure Wikipedia to not display images if you would like to – there are many ways to do so. However written content cannot be hidden with conventional software.

Pages which are normally appropriate for children to view, like articles about cartoon characters or books written for young readers, may be vandalized with rude words or content which may be considered offensive and inappropriate for some younger readers. Vandalism is normally noticed and removed within a few minutes, if not seconds (via the recent changes function, or via an automated bot); but sometimes it can remain unnoticed for days, and even if not, someone will have to see it before it can be removed, and this could be anyone. If you see vandalism, please report it (or even have a try at editing the page yourself!).


Wikipedia community

Further information: Wikipedia:Administration

Wikipedia does not engage in a "working with children" check on editors, and it is possible for any editor to communicate with any other either on the wiki or via email, if the editor has an email account registered with Wikipedia (this feature can be disabled in your Preferences). This communication may not be monitored by other Wikipedia editors, and we strongly advise all editors not to publish private information such as full contact details. Accidental publication of personal or contact detail can be removed by requesting oversight, a form of hiding information so that it can only be viewed by only a group of especially trusted people, known as arbitrators or oversighters. They have signed a legal agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation, and if they disclose oversighted information without permission from foundation staff, severe sanctions will be imposed. For legal reasons, nothing inside our database is permanently deleted.

Most communication on Wikipedia occurs in an open, public, reviewable manner – even personal "talk page" messages are readable by anybody. Note, however, that contrary to some sites directed towards youth, the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation (who run Wikipedia) do not regularly patrol discussion pages or remove inappropriate comments; it only has volunteer administrators, who may exclude people breaching civility rules, but who will not censor conversations, even if they deal with adult topics.

Children and their parents must understand that any person, no matter how well- or ill-motivated, is free to participate in the project. While some child-focused online communities will remove members who are found/suspected of being dangerous towards children in the "real/offline" world, Wikipedia does not, as a rule, require users to disclose their identities, and hence cannot remove them according to anything that pertains to identity, including criminal or sex-offender records. A child, or anyone else, should never assume that if somebody has an account on Wikipedia, then they're safe to meet in person. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia project, not a social networking web site. Common sense must be applied where it most pertains, and in particular it must be remembered that anyone can pass themselves off as anyone on the Internet.

Wikipedia will nonetheless prevent users who appear to be using the site for inappropriate purposes from editing or logging in, and in extreme cases, issue a formal ban on that user. Inappropriate purposes ranges from trying to form or legitimize relationships with children to disclosing private information. For advice on what to do if such behavior is observed, please see Wikipedia:Child protection.

The most useful piece of advice guardians can give to younger editors is to never divulge any personally identifiable information (name, age, location, school) on Wikipedia – or anywhere else publicly available on the Internet for that matter. Some sites may have ways of restricting access to personal information; however most, including Wikipedia, do not, please see Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors. If you suspect a minor has posted their personal information on Wikipedia please follow the process detailed at Wikipedia:Requests for oversight.

See also

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Content related:

  • Wikipedia:Content disclaimer
  • Wikipedia:Personal security practices
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is in the real world
  • Help:Options to hide an image

Communicating with Wikipedia:

  • Wikipedia:Questions – if you have further specific questions, this page advises you how best to submit them.
    • Contact Wikipedia – how to contact Wikipedia directly.

Frequently asked questions:

  • Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools, a frequently asked questions page for schools.
  • Wikipedia:Help, the wiki's generic help pages.

The following pages are essays describing the thoughts of some Wikipedians, which have failed to gain broad acceptance as official guidelines or policies, but are in related areas:

  • Wikipedia:Sexual content
  • Wikipedia:Protecting children's privacy
  • Wikipedia:Youth protection

External links

  • Essay on very young editors by Sue Gardner, former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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About Wikipedia
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  • In brief
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Readers' FAQ
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  • Ask for help on your talk page (a volunteer will visit you there)
Wikipedia key policies and guidelines (?)
  • Five pillars
    • Ignore all rules
Content (?)
P
  • Verifiability
  • No original research
  • Neutral point of view
  • What Wikipedia is not
  • Biographies of living persons
  • Copyright (Copyright violations)
  • Image use
  • Article titles
G
  • Notability
  • Autobiography
  • Citing sources
  • Reliable sources
    • medicine
  • Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources
  • Plagiarism
  • Don't create hoaxes
  • Fringe theories
  • Patent nonsense
  • External links
Conduct (?)
P
  • Civility
  • Consensus
  • Harassment
  • Vandalism
  • Ignore all rules
  • No personal attacks
  • Ownership of content
  • Edit warring
  • Dispute resolution
  • Sockpuppetry
  • No legal threats
  • Child protection
  • Paid-contribution disclosure
G
  • Assume good faith
  • Conflict of interest
  • Disruptive editing
  • Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point
  • Etiquette
  • Gaming the system
  • Please do not bite the newcomers
  • Courtesy vanishing
  • Responding to threats of harm
  • Talk page guidelines
    • Signatures
Deletion (?)
P
  • Deletion policy
  • Proposed deletion
    • Biographies
    • Books
  • Criteria for speedy deletion
  • Attack page
  • Oversight
  • Revision deletion
Enforcement (?)
P
  • Administrators
  • Banning
  • Blocking
  • Page protection
Editing (?)
P
  • Editing policy
G
  • Article size
  • Be bold
  • Disambiguation
  • Hatnotes
  • Broad-concept article
  • Understandability
Style
  • Manual of Style
    • Contents
  • Accessibility
  • Dates and numbers
  • Images
  • Layout
  • Lead section
  • Linking
  • Lists
Classification
  • Categories, lists, and navigation templates
  • Categorization
  • Template namespace
Project content (?)
G
  • Project namespace
    • WikiProjects
  • User pages
    • User boxes
  • Shortcuts
  • Subpages
WMF (?)
P
  • Terms of Use
  • List of policies
  • Friendly space policy
  • Licensing and copyright
  • Privacy policy
  • List of all policies and guidelines
    • P: List of policies
    • G: List of guidelines
  • Summaries of values and principles
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