I'm waiting for actual definitive information on enwiki or meta. FT2
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Keith Old <keith...@gmail.com> wrote: > G'day folks, > > The New York Times reports on flagged revisions: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss > > > "Wikipedia< > http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html?inline=nyt-org > >, > 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 English-language version of Wikipedia has just surpassed three > million articles, that freewheeling ethos is about to be curbed. > > Officials at the Wikimedia > Foundation<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>, > the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs Wikipedia, say that within > weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of > editorial review on articles about living people. > > The new feature, called “flagged revisions,” will require that an > experienced volunteer editor for Wikipedia sign off on any change made by > the public before it can go live. Until the change is approved — or in > Wikispeak, flagged — it will sit invisibly on Wikipedia’s servers, and > visitors will be directed to the earlier version. " > > (More in article) > > Regards > > > > *Keith Old* > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l