Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval

The NY Times reports on an epochal move by Wikipedia — within weeks, the formerly freewheeling encyclopedia will begin requiring editor approval for all edits to articles about living people. "The new feature, called 'flagged revisions,' will require that an experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia sign off on any change made by the public before it can go live. Until the change is approved — or in Wikispeak, flagged — it will sit invisibly on Wikipedia's servers, and visitors will be directed to the earlier version. ... The new editing procedures... have been applied to the entire German-language version of Wikipedia during the last year... Although Wikipedia has prevented anonymous users from creating new articles for several years now, the new flagging system crosses a psychological Rubicon. It will divide Wikipedia's contributors into two classes — experienced, trusted editors, and everyone else — altering Wikipedia's implicit notion that everyone has an equal right to edit entries."

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The whining here is PATHETIC.

[mcrbids]

Yes, yes it is - towards a day when the inner circle no longer has to use secret mailing lists, sock puppets, WP:CONFUSING, and the ol' boy network... They'll be the Law. And there will be no appeal.

Quoted is just one of many "END OF THE WORLD OMG I'M SO BETRAYEDED!" posts. The sound of a thousand 13-year olds biatching from their mother's basements as if the world owed 'em something. And they are all just pathetic and uninformed.

See, the license for Wikipedia is OPEN. You can download it, and fork your own damned wiki, complete with 3 MILLION quality articles to start with. And the cost to you for all this awesome shiat is nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero, diddlysquat.

But hey, let's just ignore the facts, and whine and bellyache about the fact that the FREE (in just about every way) encyclopedia is being maintained (again, at no charge) by terms you don't like.

Geez, whiners! Don't like how it's being done? Grow a brass pair, and do it yourself! (or STFU)