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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. first post by jgawera · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sounds like they need a slashdot style moderation system. Yay, I have 5 points :)

  2. George W Bush says... by abscissa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't let the (trolls?/terrorists?) win!

  3. to: slashdot re: new comment system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it is impossible to express in any language known to me how utterly fucking awful this total disaster of a sorry excuse for a "user interface" is. seriously, this is just completely fucking terrible and totally, totally, absolutely without a shadow of a doubt FULLY UNUSABLE.