can the germans fix wikipedia?

can the germans fix wikipedia? home business apple gaming hardware gear & gadgets law & disorder home news articles guides journals forum shop.ars emporium rss from the newsdesk can the germans fix wikipedia? by nate anderson | published: august 23, 2006 - 12:00pm ct how bad things have things gotten at wikipedia? it's common knowledge that the site suffers from hoaxsters, inaccurate information, and a vandalism problem that might be funny if it weren't so pervasive. even the vandalism page has now been vandalized. wikipedia founder jimmy wales told cnet in an interview that the germans are coming—and they have a plan to save wikipedia. the german-language version of wikipedia will get an experimental overhaul in the next few weeks designed to cut down on vandalism, edit wars, and misinformation. how will it work? through the magical power of trust. in the german system, any user will still be allowed to make edits to any article. those edits won't show up in the live version of the site, though, until a registered user with a certain level of time and experience approves the changes. it's a simple change, but one that could prevent the most juvenile forms of vandalism from ever appearing on the main site, which should do much to remove the appeal of vandalizing articles. the feature probably won't deter more committed defacers and political operatives, but it should bring a stability to the site that wikipedia currently lacks. if the pilot program is successful, the idea could eventually be incorporated into other wikipedia sites. while this seems like an obvious step in the right direction, it only deals with wikipedia's vandalism problem—accuracy issues are not addressed. the move comes in response to a german court decision early this year that ruled against wikipedia for publishing the name of a deceased hacker whose family was involved in a court case over his death. the new protections should make it easier for german editors to spot material that might get the site into heißwasser; simply claiming that "but anyone can edit, your honor!" isn't going to cut it anymore. now that wikipedia a has exploded in size and attracted worldwide interest, finding people willing to do edits and write content for free is no longer wikipedia's biggest challenge. now the concern is to find some way to keep the content more stable, so that users who visit a wikipedia article on three separate days don't find three dramatically different versions of the same article. wales would like to develop "wikipedia 1.0," a frozen version of the encyclopedia's contents where a user could "pull wikipedia articles and be pretty sure you're not going to get a giant penis picture," but he concedes that the material is not yet that polished. with new api, google prepares to pump the base :next postnetflix-blockbuster fight continues with antitrust countersuit :prev post latest news posts latest journal posts shooting down sprint rumors: some risks even google can't afford microsoft unbundles hyper-v; oracle goes virtual eu to put google-doubleclick deal under the microscope u r sued: patent holding company targets 131 companies over sms patents fcc's fascination with cable regulation could lead to a la carte cable infringement in perspective: major movie bust fine dwarfed by riaa tab multicore, 64-bit x86 shakes up top 500 supercomputer list microsoft's musiwave acquisition could lead to zune wireless music store move aside, lego star wars: lego batman details surface bioware searching for writing talent for new mmo filemaker diversifies, offering yet another os x personal database app mac bu on entourage, powerpoint and messenger eu fails to offer competitve salaries for scientists new chax beta brings growl, log viewer back to leopard's ichat mii beauty pageant: hands on with the "check mii out" channel october leopard sales outpace windows in japan move aside, lego star wars: lego batman details surface new details about lego batman have surfaced, including confirmation that the game will follow in its predecessors footsteps with multiple characters, vehicles, and cooperative play. software engineer-perl at cambridge interactive development cambridge, ma software engineer, asp.net at logmein, inc woburn, ma software engineer c, c++ at logmein, inc woburn, ma sr. systems engineer, grid services operations at yahoo! 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