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Wikipedia Announces Tighter Editorial Control

Posted by Zonk on from the cracking-down-on-the-idea dept.

Daedalus_ wrote to mention a Reuters article reporting from Wikimania. "Wikipedia, the Web encyclopaedia written and edited by Internet users from all over the world, plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content, founder Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying Friday." (Update: 08/06 23:45 GMT by J : But see his response here!) Meanwhile, kyelewis writes "WikiMania, the First International WikiMedia Conference is open in Germany, but if you couldn't gather the money or the courage to fly over, you can listen online in Ogg Vorbis format, or if you miss the talks, you can download them later. The WikiMania Broadcast page has more information, and the WikiMania Programme is also available, so jump in and learn more about the mysterious technology that is the wiki."

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  1. That still doesn't change some things. by TheOtherAgentM · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Hollabackgirl" will still be some term that Gwen Stefani just made the fuck up and tried to pass off as normal speech.

    1. Re:That still doesn't change some things. by dr_dank · · Score: 2, Funny

      That shit is bananas.

      B-A-N-A-N-A-S

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  2. Hint hint by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey now, maybe a certain *other* site could take this opportunity to review the quality of its editors...

    1. Re:Hint hint by jayhawk88 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I agree, it's high time K5 got it's shit together.

  3. Heh - "Intelegent Design" by starseeker · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have no idea if that was intentional, but either way it's sheer genius :-).

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    1. Re:Heh - "Intelegent Design" by DotWarner · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, yeah. He spelled it right. See how it works?

  4. Oh, thanks a lot! by aftk2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why couldn't they have done this several months ago, before my boss started looking closely at Wikipedia, and their method of allowing anyone - even users not logged into specific user accounts - to edit a given page? It's taken a bit of effort and time to reengineer our CMS to do the same, should someone desire the option.

    Sigh. I fully expect to walk into work on Monday and see "One-button page locking" as the next feature to implement.

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  5. Don't worry, guys by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    I decided I didn't like this new policy, so I went to WikiPedia and rewrote it.

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  6. Re:Interesting, but... by ErroneousBee · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think they may mean biographies of minor dead people, old TV shows, etc.

    Freezing these would stop the totally ramdom vandals who pick rarely visited pages and insert incorrect information.

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  7. Re:Isn't that an oxymoron? by Spellbinder · · Score: 2, Funny

    there is an optical similarity between Palpatine and this Benedict
    they both have this evil look

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  8. Re: Isn't that an oxymoron? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But timothys been here from the start, long before Slashdot became well known.

  9. Re:Isn't that an oxymoron? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The problem is that many people view Wikipedia, but when you see Emperor Palpatine in the spot where Pope Benedict's picture is supposed to be, Wikipedia loses credibility.

    That's just unacceptable. Surely anyone can see that this is a far more credible representation of the new Pope.