Article: Wikipedia to require review of changes in articles about living people; For Wikipedia, new guards at the gate ; Layer of editorial review to be placed over entries about living people

Noam Cohen
International Herald Tribune
08-26-2009
Wikipedia to require review of changes in articles about living people; For Wikipedia, new guards at the gate ; Layer of editorial review to be placed over entries about living people
Byline: Noam Cohen
Type: News

The new feature, called "flagged revisions," will call for an experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia to sign off on any change made by the public before it can go live.

Wikipedia, one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from the contributions of volunteers, all with the power to edit, and presumably improve, the content.
Now, as the ...

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