New subject: Wikipedia, the encylopedia that anyone can't edit

28 Mar 2007

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  bobolozo wrote:
> We now have about 1500 articles in
> Category:Semi-protected, which new editors and IP
> addresses can't edit.  I picked a few at random, and
> most I checked were entirely uncontroversial articles
> which had briefly had some trouble from an IP address,
> which was over months ago and there was no reason to
> believe it would ever occur again.
>
> This is in violation of one of our basic principles. 
What basic principle is that? I thought Wikipedia's basic principles  
were a) to be free (as in freedom), and b) to be an encyclopedia.  
Everything else is a means to that end, not a "basic principle."

Anyone _can_ edit any Wikipedia article, because anyone can create an  
account. And the account name can be pseudonymous.

And, anyone _can_ edit any WIkipedia article, because they are all  
licensed under the GFDL. What they cannot do is:

Edit a Wikipedia article
--without creating an account
--and host that edited version
--on the Wikipedia website
--in the main namespace.

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