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Not As Wiki As It Used To Be

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the reining-in-control dept.

jonney02 writes "The BBC NEWS is running a story about how Wikipedia plans to take back control due to the recent onslaught of malformed articles." It's always been a scary balance between allowing total anonymous participation in a web forum, and preventing yourself from being overrun. I don't envy the Wikipedia designers one bit.

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  1. The BBC story is completely wrong by jwales · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't really know what else to say about it.

    We are introducing some changes, yes. The changes are specifically designed to make us MORE of a wiki than before.

    We used to have to protect articles. We didn't like that, so we moved to what we call semi-protection. We still don't like that, so we are moving to non-vandalized-version flagging.

    Each of these steps was specifically designed to make Wikipedia MORE of a wiki.

    Sheesh.

    --Jimbo

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    Wikia