Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales, denies that the new package indented to improve the site's reliability, will jeopardise the users ability to edit text, and go against its original premises of having information that could be edited by people around the world.
Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales, denies that the new package indented
to improve the site's reliability, will jeopardise the users ability to
edit text, and go against its original premises of having information
that could be edited by people around the world.
As previously reported by Tetridia ("Wikipedia - 100% reliable source?"),
Wikipedia will be launching a new strategy indented to improve its
reliability. The new structure involves the online encyclopaedia’s text
being edited by "accredited editors", instead of the instant editing
being used at present.
In a recent interview with the Times Online, Wikipedia's founder has
affirmed that the site's original premise will not be sacrificed for
accuracy and reliability, users can still make the changes they feel
necessary, however they would have to be registered for at least 4 days
before making any changes.
http://www.tetridia.com/1026
Jimmy Wales believes, that these new modifications will decrease the
number of wrong input information on the site; " There are no plans to
restrict anybody's status (...) anyone can make an edit, but if the
user hasn't been registered for at least 4 days, then it would have to
be approved by someone who has been registered before going live".
As for Wikipedia's new competitor Citizendum which
runs a very similar policy, the mogul denies that these new actions are
a response to their competitor, which admits entries from the public
but are edited by an expert panel, before being published online.
At the moment, the company is also facing a new challenge, the launch
of its own search engine, which would involve users with website
ranking, scheduled for December this year. Search Wikia
is the name, and Mr Wales refutes that he intends to rival Google,
"when we launch search Wikia, people will probably expect it to be a
fully fledged Google - it won’t be!"
Altogether, search Wikia seems to be following its sister company's
footsteps as a place in the online world where users have more control,
if users rate the websites and the order in which they appear, that
would definitely give cybernauts the power to exclude unnecessary sites
from our search results. As for Wikipedia the future might look bright,
it is not the most reliable source, but it will always give a good base
start to any research.
Article Source: http://www.theukarticledirectory.co.uk/.
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