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After the recent media blitz criticizing Wikipedia, the web service responded:

Wikipedia will now require users to register before they can create articles, Jimmy Wales, founder of the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Web site, said Monday. People who modify existing articles will still be able to do so without registering.

I am sure the new policy will go a long way, especially considering that almost every imaginable page has already been created. True, the measures will help with the spam, but that is not what all the discussion has been about. Talk about a gimmick.

Additionally, this was in a different article:

“That’s an interesting philosophical issue,” Wales said. “Because on the one hand, particularly with things like podcasting, the people involved are people who know a lot about it, and on the other hand, when people are editing something they’ve been personally involved in, it can be hard for them to be neutral.”

He added that traditionally, Wikipedia has discouraged users from participating in such entries and asks them to be mature and serious when they do.

Luckily, the Internet is a great place to expect maturity and seriousness from complete strangers protected by anonymity.

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