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Hey Mario, what are you doing reading a Marxist paper like the NYT :-)
On a more serious note: Sorry for ending up on an offtopic note... but
just to answer Mario.
The headline below is true but misleading. It suggests that the entire
Wikipedia has shifted away from an "anyone can edit" policy. Well, as
you will see, some 82+179 articles were 'protected'. Currently, there
are 1.1 million articles in the English wikipedia alone (1,199,376
articles in English, to be precise as of 2.24 pm in Goa). So, only a
tiny fraction have been blocked from editing due to their contentious
nature.
Wikipedia strives for a NPOV (neutral point of view) approach. Anyway,
even on the blocked articles, it's open to anyone to go to the DISCUSS
page of every article, and state one's views clearly. For instance,
when I saw the Goa page being distorted by the 'colonialism started in
1961' lobby, instead of fighting an edit-reedit-rereedit battle, I
simply went and made my point on the DISCUSS page. It worked, and the
editors were convinced about the points put forth (still visible and
on the record).
BTW, have you contributed to the Wikipedia? Or will we rest content in
pointing out flaws in it? Peace, and no offence meant! FN
Fred, Are you aware of the following development at Wikipedia?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17wiki.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=dfa87aba254ab5e7&hp=&ex=1150516800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy.
June 17, 2006
Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy
By KATIE HAFNER
Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit." Unless
you want to edit the entries on Albert Einstein, human rights in China
or Christina Aguilera.
Wikipedia's come-one, come-all invitation to write and edit articles,
and the surprisingly successful results, have captured the public
imagination. But it is not the experiment in freewheeling collective
creativity it might seem to be, because maintaining so much openness
inevitably involves some tradeoffs.
At its core, Wikipedia is not just a reference work but also an online
community that has built itself a bureaucracy of sorts — one that, in
response to well-publicized problems with some entries, has recently
grown more elaborate. It has a clear power structure that gives
volunteer administrators the authority to exercise editorial control,
delete unsuitable articles and protect those that are vulnerable to
vandalism.
Those measures can put some entries outside of the "anyone can edit"
realm. The list changes rapidly, but as of yesterday, the entries for
Einstein and Ms. Aguilera were among 82 that administrators had
"protected" from all editing, mostly because of repeated vandalism or
disputes over what should be said. Another 179 entries — including
those for George W. Bush, Islam and Adolf Hitler — were
"semi-protected," open to editing only by people who had been
registered at the site for at least four days. (See a List of
Protected Entries)
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