[WikiEN-l] New York Times: Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People

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I'm waiting for actual definitive information on enwiki or meta.

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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Keith Old <keithold at gmail.com> wrote:

> G'day folks,
>
> The New York Times reports on flagged revisions:
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
>
>
> "Wikipedia<
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html?inline=nyt-org
> >,
> one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years
> ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from the
> contributions of volunteers, all with the power to edit, and presumably
> improve, the content.
>
>
> Now, as the English-language version of Wikipedia has just surpassed three
> million articles, that freewheeling ethos is about to be curbed.
>
> Officials at the Wikimedia
> Foundation<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>,
> the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs Wikipedia, say that within
> weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of
> editorial review on articles about living people.
>
> The new feature, called “flagged revisions,” will require that an
> experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia sign off on any change made by
> the public before it can go live. Until the change is approved — or in
> Wikispeak, flagged — it will sit invisibly on Wikipedia’s servers, and
> visitors will be directed to the earlier version. "
>
> (More in article)
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> *Keith Old*
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