[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales post on Huffington Post

Joseph Reagle reagle at mit.edu
Mon Sep 21 21:49:07 UTC 2009


Wales writes:

> Previously, certain high profile and high risk biographies and other entries were kept locked to prevent vandalism by users who had not registered accounts on the site for a 'waiting period' of 4 days."

The thing I'm curious about is this will be great openness in those 5,137 (~0.2%) of previously protected pages, but how many unprotected pages will now require Reviewer vetting?



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