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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia: The Platform Evolves[/b]
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Although Wikipedia has prevented anonymous users from creating new articles for several years now, the new flagging system crosses a psychological Rubicon. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia adding a layer of editing to articles about people[/b]
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Officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, say that within weeks, ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia to add layer of editing to some articles[/b]
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NEW YORK, Aug 25 â€” 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 ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia to require new biography edits to be approved first[/b]
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By paulbradshaw â‹… August 25, 2009 â‹… Email This Post â‹… Post a comment The New York Times reports that edits by new users to biographical entries on ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia gives control to editors[/b]
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Online encyclopedia Wackypedia has given up on its policy about allowing people to write what they like. Instead Jimmy Wales says that his chums, ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia brings restrictions into force[/b]
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After a lot of behind-the-scenes arguments, Wikipedia looks set to adopt changes that will make it much harder for contributors to edit the site. ...

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Wikipedia, a free, web-based encyclopedia and one of the world's most popular websites, will soon implement a feature that will require an experienced ...

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Wikipedia will require edits made about a living person to be signed off by an experienced editor as part of its "flagged revisions" feature. ...

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New York (NY) -In a bid to prevent famous people from shuffling off this mortal coil ahead of their time, online repository of questionable ...

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The online encyclopedia is now requiring sign-off from an experienced editor to change articles about people. ...

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The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia is on the cusp of launching a major revamp to how people contribute to some pages. The site will require that revisions ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Free-to-edit [b]Wikipedia appoints 'volunteer editors' to vet changes ...[/b]
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By Mail Foreign Service For eight years it has been the go-to place on the internet to find out about almost any subject on Earth. But now the free-to-edit ...

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By Mail Foreign Service For eight years it has been the go-to place on the internet to find out about almost any subject on Earth. But now the free-to-edit ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia super-editors to police entries on living persons[/b]
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The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia plans to introduce a new editing process to reduce incidents of deliberate vandalism on the site. ...

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According to the New York Times, Wikipedia is planning on rolling out a new "flagged revisions" feature that requires an experienced editor to sign off on ...

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By Jane Fazackarley. Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia is on the brink of introducing a dramatic revamp to how visitors to the site can add to ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Imposing Stricter Editing for Living People[/b]
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One of Wikipedia's greatest appeals has long been the relative freedom with which users can add to articles. It's also been one of the site's largest ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia to change posting rules[/b]
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The popular and ubiquitous online encyclopedia Wikipedia plans to change the way people contribute to some of its entries. The site, run by the Wikimedia ...

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The popular and ubiquitous online encyclopedia Wikipedia plans to change the way people contribute to some of its entries. The site, run by the Wikimedia ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia will require trusted editors to approve changes[/b]
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According to the New York Times, Wikipedia is making a move away from a democratic free-for-all system ...

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The popular and ubiquitous online encyclopedia Wikipedia plans to change the way people contribute to some of its entries. The site, run by the Wikimedia ...

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The popular and ubiquitous online encyclopedia Wikipedia plans to change the way people contribute to some of its entries. The site, run by the Wikimedia ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Tightens Up Edit Policy for the Living[/b]
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One of Wikipedia's greatest appeals has long been the relative freedom with which users can add to articles. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Grows Up--Limits Edits to Biographies[/b]
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Wikipedia's governing Wikimedia Foundation just made an interesting announcement: For the first time some editorial control will ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia: The Editors Are Watching You Now[/b]
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Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone could contribute, is about to place controls on how articles about living ...

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AP Video By AP NEW YORK (AP) â€” Wikipedia says it is testing a new method for curbing false information on pages devoted to individual people. ...

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AP NEW YORK (AP) - Wikipedia says it is testing a new method for curbing false information on pages devoted to individual people. The online encyclopedia ...

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Wikipedia says it is testing a new method for curbing false information on pages devoted to individual people. The online encyclopedia, which anyone can ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia: the encyclopedia anyone can edit (after review by an ...[/b]
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The English language version of Wikipedia will be a little less open in a few weeks time if the ...

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