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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.
The wikipedia page about Luxembourgish language has been containing libelous statements about the former Luxembourgish Minister of Pubs^H^H^H^HEconsomy since January...
Seems to me it would allow slightly more tracking on obviously malformed articles. But one thing is for certain, it'd give them 15 less seconds per day to screw articles up with. Or make it take 2 mins to register. Anything seems like it would help. Your point certainly could have been made without childish insults, no matter which side is more correct.
How can you people not see this?!?!?!
It's the liberal media trying to destroy our TRUTHINESS!
I'm a fiscal conservative, it's a pity we don't have a political party anymore
"You are a total fucking moron. You think that just because people have a login ID that they are somehow all of a sudden more likely to treat others with respect and behave with decorum? Were you sucking dick while they were handing out brains?"
No, YOU'RE the fucking moron! As a owner of several wikis, I can tell you that vandalism goes WAY DOWN when you eliminate anonymous accounts. It may not go to zero but it goes WAY DOWN. On some of my wikis, it has gone to zero.
So STFU
Your thin skin doesn't make me a troll