“Early this year, amid heightened publicity about false information on the site, the community decided to introduce semi-protection of some articles,” The New York Times reports about Wikipedia.
“Early this year, amid heightened publicity about false information on the site, the community decided to introduce semi-protection of some articles,” The New York Times reports about Wikipedia.
The four-day waiting period is meant to function something like the one imposed on gun buyers.
Once the assaults have died down, the semi-protected page is often reset to “anyone can edit” mode. An entry on Bill Gates was semi-protected for just a few days in January, but some entries, like the article on President Bush, stay that way indefinitely. Other semi-protected subjects as of yesterday were Opus Dei, Tony Blair and sex.
To some critics, protection policies make a mockery of the “anyone can edit” notion….
