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Wikipedia Adopting Semi-Protection of Pages
kizzle (the other one) writes "A major policy change on Wikipedia was just passed 103-4-2 along with Jimbo Wales' endorsement to incorporate a process called 'Semi-protection' only on the most frequent targets of vandalism."
Give it some really nice leather binding. It'd look great on my mom's bookshelf.
...at people doing this and so that is why he is endorsing this change.
The semi free encyclopedia, editable by some.
When we were first considering making Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs available as a publically manageable satirical metanarrative, we dropped the basic timeline on Wikipedia because I liked the way their software went about things. Of course, a phalanx of pedants leapt into action almost immediately to scour - from the sacred corpus of their data - our revolting fancruft.
Holy crap, was that English? I've been out of the U.S. far too long.
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
And so Wikipedia would then be as reliable as slashdot posts?
I'm not complaining about your moderation - you've obviously hit some sort of chord somewhere
Obviously part of the slashdot groupthink is that there is slashdot groupthink...
If I have nothing to hide, you have no reason to search me
Admins need to be trained that humility and acceptance are more powerful motivators than insults, imperiousness and backhanded punishments.
Hey! Don't post things like this on Slashdot. If people here catch on to that and start behaving decently, tens of thousands of jerks may take their arrogance, trolling, and dramatic bickering elsewhere. It'd be like unleashing a plague of locusts on the Internet.
Is this some form of complicated reverse psychology, or does Wales really believe that he can tell the media what they can and cannot cover as news?
Why not? The White House does it all the time.