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New Editing Process Hopes to Improve Wikipedia’s Accuracy

By admin | August 25, 2009

New Editing Process Hopes to Improve Wikipedia’s Accuracy

Students citing Wikipedia in papers about living people can feel a little more secure about the online encyclopedia’s accuracy.

Copying an effort that was tested in Wikipedia’s German version, a new feature called “flagged revisions” will not allow posts on living people to be updated until “an experienced volunteer editor” approves the changes, The New York Times <a

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