Media News - Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the living
Wikipedia will soon be adding a feature to its English-language site that assigns an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people, according to Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the user-written online encyclopedia. Confirming a story reported Monday by The New York Times, Wikimedia Foundation spokesman Jay Walsh said the "flagged revisions" feature is already active on the German site, but needs some fleshing out before it goes live to the public on the English site. The plan is to deploy the feature on a test wiki soon so the Wikipedia community can play around with before it goes public. The test wiki is expected to go live soon, but no specific time frame has been established, Walsh said. The feature was debated earlier this year in the aftermath of a false entry that was posted by a user, saying US Sens. Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd had died after an inaugural luncheon in January. (CNet)
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