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"Wikipedia Trying a Different Editing Approach"

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "If you don't use Wikipedia much, you might think that it's kept "open" all the time, and that any page may be edited at any time by any person. That's not correct. Sometimes pages have to be locked against editing, usually because they have become a target due to something happening in the news. Wikipedia says only about 0.1 percent of the 3.3 million articles on the English Wikipedia are actually being protected against editing.

Wikipedia announced last week that it is taking a different tack in protecting pages. For the next couple of months the site will try something called "Pending Changes". (The Wikipedia page for pending changes is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pending_changes..."

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Source: Research Buzz, 23 June 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).