Wikipedia Tries Moderator System
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on August 23, 2006 at 1:11:33 PM
I really don't see the big deal about Wikipedia trying moderation before edits show. And remember that Wikipedia should NOT be used as a source for any academic paper. Some teachers will let you slide, but others will fail you.
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But now, Wales said, administrators of the German Wikipedia--the second-largest version after English--have come up with a system that could protect live articles, especially obscure ones that escape regular scrutiny from hawkeyed community members intent on maintaining accuracy. As always, anyone will be able to make article edits. But it would take someone who has been around Wikipedia for some yet-to-be-determined period of time--and who, therefore, has passed a threshold of trustworthiness--to make the edits live on the public site. If someone vandalizes an article, the edits would not be approved.