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- Rggoalie3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"I see that some news media have picked this story up as if it is important. Please please please don't do that. This is one of many changes to the software which are coming soon, including the ability to put pages into a 'validated' state (better name should be determined) and so on. Treating this as a major policy change is therefore a huge huge error being made by people who have no understanding of how Wikipedia works.--Jimbo Wales"
Right off the front page... This is not a major change in how things are done for Wikipedia. Actually, it allows for more flexibility for the Wikipedia team. - Adenosine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If any thing, I see this move as a more liberating step than a restricting one. Before the only options for an article were 1) keep it wide open for everyone 2)lock it down completely. This new option allows for wikipedia to block the most likely sources of attention aroused teenagers that often turn every current-event's article into a mess. I don't for see this being used to much but hopefully it will be used more than the 'blocking' option has been used in the past because there are some great articles that need some more protection.
- barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Make your own article if you will, just so long as it's documented somewhere."
uhh yeah thats one of the main rules of wikipedia. - JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"nearly as reliable."
Wikipedia's content length per article is nearly double that of Britannica for the sampled articles in that study, therefore, Wikipedia is actually better. - jwestbrook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This feature hasn't been implemented yet only approved as policy. The Wikimedia developers still have to add the feature to the software
- judsond, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wikipedia isn't news source, so things like that don't work entirely well there. I know it seems like a good place to get information out, but really, it's not.
- Harlequn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wikipedia Encyclopedia Britanica
just as
Skype your land line telephone system
and that's okay. The sky is not falling. - samd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sounds like a good move to me. Obviously Wikipedia moves further from the fully open feel but it hasn't been fully open since any kind of protection was introduced. It is a minor sacrifice for a higher standard of articles.
- crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good start, I suppose.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmm, some recent studies showed that wikipedia was as reliable as britannica..
http://digg.com/science/Wikipedia_as_accurate_on_science_as_Encyclopedia_Britannica_study_shows - biffman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have always liked wikipedia and I want its credibility to be retained at any cost. Britannica even though a good encyclopedia is not free. So wikipedia wins in my opinion.
- jdrivein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0samd:
I completely agree. It's sad anyway, I hoped it could be possible to avoid it. - allthewhile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nearly as reliable.
- thetruth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sorry to break from the herd, but every new wikipedia policy makes me hate it more.
My prediction: eventually, anonymous edits will be barred entirely and new accounts will have to pay a small fee in order to gain article editing privileges. - jaymenna78734, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Like everything in life...the 1 butt head in 4,000,000 screws it up for us all. Can't we just shoot the offenders?
- scbysnx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like the validated state that to me says they are making an effort to make sure the information is true
- BluParadox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Wikipedia locked the Richard Pryor page with that the day he died."
Now, they use the "Protected" status for the page. The new "Semi-Protected" status is simply a weaker version of what they already have been using for a while (because they thought that protection was too strong). - judsond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea, please realize this is a less restrictive block than wikipedia had been using, which blocked everyone from editing. Not many pages are blocked, and that won't change. Blocking a page, for wikipedia, is seen as a failure to obtain consensus, and isn't taken lightly.
- dynamx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0online forums and wikipedia are great starting points to gather information on a particular subject.
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i love wikipedia and i hope every wikipedia hater will get it
- CadMasterAdam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0good call.
lets keep the ball roleing, and bring out Encyclopidia Galactica - Mike89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"To say this has nothing to do with the recent JFK incident would be a lie."
No, it would be the truth. I'm sure they don't really give a ***** about that. This applies to certain articles (which already exist, unlike the previous one) which suffer constant vandalism from people who are literally "newbs". It will not be applied to every celebrities Wikipedia entry, just those suffering vandalism. - generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Wikipedia locked the Richard Pryor page with that the day he died.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0To say this has nothing to do with the recent JFK incident would be a lie.
- Mike89, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I am currently finding Wikipedia to be a problem. A few days ago I put up an article about a *real* virus on MSN.. Not one of those hoaxes where you dont type this or you don't add that, it is real and I know alot of people who've been struck by it. Now, I made an article - hell, I signed up to make one, and it got removed [Hoax]. I made another, asking it to be reinstated - it got removed without a reason. 3rd time I put a fair bit of the original article in (I didnt keep my own copy) and asked the admins to verify it before simply nuking it. They didn't verify, obviously, because it got nuked.
Now, you want proof I wasn't ***** about this MSN virus? Add LongTimeNoLust@hotmail.com - make sure you're not talking to anyone about anything important, it usually repeatedly locks up the MSN client. Add it, and tell me the Wikipedia admins arent pedantic. Make your own article if you will, just so long as it's documented somewhere. - ossaracd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Nothing can stop the Masked Al Gore! Bwahaha!!!!
http://www.AlGoreLabs.com
http://www.AlGoreLabs.com - Incognito, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0No one cares about a virus on msn. Find something useful to contribute.
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