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Wikipedia Edits Its Policy
By: Priyanka Pradhan   |   Jun 19,2006
Wikipedia has made its ‘Anyone can edit' feature more exclusive, by refashioning it to give volunteer administrators the authority to exercise editorial control, delete unsuitable articles and protect selected articles. The articles on Wikipedia are now divided into three categories: Protected articles, semi-protected articles and free edit articles.The list of protected items changes rapidly for reasons of repeated vandalism or disputes over certain topics.

Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales said that the protection is usually temporary and affects a tiny fraction of the 1.2 million entries on the English-language site. He defended the recent move criticized on grounds of taking charge of editorial control saying, “Protection is a tool for quality control, but it hardly defines Wikipedia. What does define Wikipedia is the volunteer community and the open participation."

In a bid to protect the site from vandalism, the administrators have now made some entries like articles on US President George Bush, China and Iraq permanently inaccessible for free edit.

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Is a Wikipedia priesthood attempting to erase history? Email Battles, IA - Jun 12, 2006 This forced the keepers of the Wikipedia flame to trim editing down to only those self-serving individuals who had declared themselves judge, jury andWikipedia Edits Its Policy Moneycontrol Tech Blog, India - Jun 19, 2006 Wikipedia has made its Anyone can edit feature more exclusive, by refashioning it to give volunteer administrators the authority to exercise editorial
Extreme Dislike Animosity @ Jun 24,2006
This story, like the New York Times story which started this discussion, is completely confused. Wikipedia has not recently introduced these features: they have been part of our system for years.

What is true is that we recently introduced semi-protection, in order to OPEN more content. The overall direction of Wikipedia development is to become MORE open, not less.

It is absolutely and totally and completely false in every possible way to say that entries on George Bush, China, and Iraq are permanently inaccessible for free edit.

Please correct this story immediately!
Jimbo Wales @ Jun 20,2006
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