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thomas n. burg - on social media and its benefits for us, and sometimes gossip.

August 8th, 2005

Get back to stable truth and knowledge. I’m not sure if this move isn’t to much a concession to move from the margins of innovation the center of recognition. Could be a commercial argument. The wikipedia was meant to be a testbed for an encyclopedia in the first place.

Wikipedia and the editorial rules: “

[...] In an interview with German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung,Wales,who launched Wikipedia with partner Larry Sanger in 2001,said it needed to find a balance between protecting information from abuse and providing open access to improve entries.’There may soon be so-called stable contents.In this case,we’d freeze the pages whose quality is undisputed,’ he said.[...]

Wikipedia to tighten editorial rules

Update: a translation error misinterpreted a statement of Wikipedia´s Jimmy Wales. According to Ross Mayfield no new editorial rules in sight.

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