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Wikipedia Adopting Semi-Protection of Pages

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the countering-the-angry-jerk-effect dept.

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."

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  1. Fact: the RIAA is dying by barfomar · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is official; the Wall Street Journal confirms: The RIAA is dying.

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered RIAA community when Variety confirmed that music sales have dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of its all time high, since the online piracy pandemic began. Coming on the heels of a recent BoxOffice survey which plainly states that RIAA has lost even more sales, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The RIAA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in a recent Wall Street Journal survey of stock performance.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the RIAA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the RIAA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the RIAA because the RIAA is dying. Things are looking very bad for the RIAA. As many of us are already aware, the RIAA continues to lose. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    CD sales are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of their sales. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time RIAA leader Hillary Rosen only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: the RIAA is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Polygram Records CEO, Edgar Bronfman Jr. states that were about 6.5 billion music buyers on Earth. How many buyers are there now? Let's see. Before the piracy pandemic, the number of buyers versus pirates was roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 6.5 billion/5 = 1.3 billion pirates. Pirate downloads are now about half of the volume of buyers. Therefore there are about 2.6 billion pirates on the internet. A recent count revealed 2 pirate downloads for every buyer purchase. Therefore there must now be less than (2.6 billion/5 = .5 billion) buyers left

    Due to the troubles in New York City, Indie successes and so on, the RIAA is going out of business and is being overtaken by other forms of distribution. Now that the RIAA is almost dead, its corpse will be turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that the RIAA has steadily declined in sales share. The RIAA is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the RIAA is to survive at all it will be among dilettante music dabblers. The RIAA continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the RIAA is dead.

    Fact: the RIAA is dying