January 26, 2009

It was bound to happen eventually.

Wikipedia is talking about changing its editorial structure:

Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, is proposing a system of flagged revisions, which would mean any changes made by a new or unknown user would have to be approved by one of the site’s editors, before the changes were published.

This would mean a radical shift from the site’s philosophy that ostensibly allows anyone to make changes to almost any entry.

In a blog entry, Mr Wales said the “nonsense” of the false reports would have been “100% prevented by Flagged Revision” and said he wanted the changes to be implemented as soon as possible.

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