•Wikipedia takes away instant edits
The Industry Standard, CA -45 minutes ago
Wikipedia announced its instant and unchecked editing abilities might finally be reigned in at Wikimania 2008. According to the NYTimes Bits Blog, ...

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Ah yes, Stable Versions pops up,again. It's supposed to have been coming "Real Soon Now" for a while. As an admin, I'll believe it when I see it, and not a moment sooner.

The media has announced on many occasions, as a piece of hot breaking news, that Wikipedia's "anyone can edit and it shows up right away" feature has been finally abolished!!!! Film at 11!!!! Usually it turns out to be a fairly distorted awareness of some actual or proposed change such as the introduction of semiprotection, or even just an offhand remark by Jimbo in the middle of a speech that has no relation to any actual Wikipedia change.

Ah, it must be Wikimania time again. This is a perennial topic, in that it comes up once a year, during Wikimania.

You can't trust the news, of course. Despite the fact that "high end" news outlets are "reliable and verifiable" according to WP:V and WP:RS

But, if the news is right, this goes beyond stable versions into something that amounts to sprotection of all articles:



Which is something that many of us pushed for years, only to be shunted off to the perennial proposals site, where we were told the IP editors were the backbone of WP, and would all quit, en mass, if forced to register. Yes they would. Really! It's been scientifically proven. Or not.

So now they're demo-ing a system which they're going to try in Germany (very approrpriate) where IP editors don't get to make instant changes??

You know, this would all be funny if it weren't for those of us who've been told that we're stupid, stupid, stupid, to suggest this, for all of this time Stupid. Unwikipedian.

But, who knows. You can't trust the news. We'll see what they finally beta-test.

I would prefer saying IF they finally beta-test myself