Porn still No. 1 on Wikipedia, co-founder Larry Sanger warns
Children using Wikipedia for research can still stumble on the vast repository of pornographic images and videos that are the encyclopedia’s most popular items, warns site co-founder Larry Sanger.
“I think it’s a serious problem and so few people realize it’s there,” Sanger, one of the original founders, told FoxNews.com.
Despite a series of FoxNews.com exposes two years ago that brought the issue to the public’s attention, and a year-old resolution to institute pornography filters, there’s no end in sight to the problem, Sanger said. “I find it disturbing. I wouldn’t be speaking out if I had nothing to do with Wikipedia.”
Finding explicit imagery can be as easy as typing an unrelated search term; results go well beyond line art and diagrams — there are pictures and videos depicting human genitalia and individual acts of masturbation among countless other sexual scenes.
Indeed, nearly all of the most frequently viewed media files on Wikimedia servers are sexually explicit files, Sanger pointed out.