Tuesday 27 January 2009

Wikipedia May Switch to System Requiring Editorial Approval

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 allows anyone to make changes to almost any entry.

Read the full story here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7851400.stm

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