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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."
> How could it possibly be? Wikipedia isn't a government entity.
I'm curious - so which items in the US bill of rights stuff don't apply to Corporations or other Organizations?
Imagine what would happen if the Libertarians get their way and there isn't much Government left to respect their precious Constitution in a meaningful way.
How about Wikipedia stick to the facts? There's truth, or there's falsehood.
Waterboarding is torture. That's the truth. I'm glad the current revision gets it right.