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New Editing Process Seeks to Improve Wikipedia’s Accuracy
By admin | August 27, 2009
New Editing Process Seeks 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 reports.
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