[Wikipedia-l] "Approved" versions on Wikipedia FAQ

[Tim 'avatar' Bartel]

David Gerard schrieb am 30.08.2006 16:09:
> At present a small percentage of
> articles (a few hundred out of 1.5 million on the English language
> Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/) are locked or partially locked
> from editing.

FYI: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~avatar/protected.php?wiki=en

The approved version feature won't help open up protected pages (but 
semi-protected).

> These features are not finished, so we don't have a lot of fine detail
> as to how it will all work as yet. But we hope this change will allow
> us to do things such as open up the George W. Bush article or even the
> front page itself to full unrestricted editing.

Most german newspapers/newsmagazines don't get, that most of the german 
frontpage IS open (pictures and text via templates). This is a bit 
strange, because they also write about penises on it...

Bye, avatar.