Wikipedia protecting some entries from editing
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is no longer as freewheeling as it once was, protecting some subjects from sometimes contentious editing. The New York Times reports that at the moment 82 articles are barred from any editing while another 179 are “semi-protected,” with only people who have been registered members of the community for at least four days allowed to touch them. Albert Einstein, Christine Aguilera and China fall into the first, totally protected category, while U.S. President George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler only rate semi-protection.
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder, said he does not think the protection significantly detracts from its openness, pointing out that the vast majority of all sites are open for editing. While anyone on earth with Internet access could, in theory, edit or write a Wikipedia entry, Wales said most of the work is done by a core group of about 1,000 volunteers. Wikipedia is still getting bigger and bigger, is now the web’s third most popular news and information source and contains almost 4 million entries. By the way, did you know there’s also one entry about NewTorrents.info (not my work)?
Source: ITWire, CNet
Comments(5)
Very interresting article.
Hey, Martin. That is awesome! You’re immortal now *laughs*.
By the way, something strange is happening to newtorrents.info at the moment – getting “403 Forbidden” when accessing any URL on the site…?
The person that wrote that Wiki entry is really cynical. Clearly, he/she has been coming here often or just reads the forum threads. The part at the end talking about the use of ads on the site I find in bad taste. The person that runs this, does so for free to anyone else. You want him to pay all this money so you can come to his site for free and get great torrents yet he can’t have little google ads? If he had massive banners, pop-up ads or malware(spyware, adware, etc.)then maybe that would suck but christ people. Have a little couth and perspicacity. I hope he makes money off this, (which he probably isn’t) he’s doing us all a great favor, Long Live NT!
Yep, something is funky.
Also… adding NT.info shortcut to the files. VERY, VERY bad idea… this used to be something Spanish torrent sites did, not respectable listing sites. If you really want to add something – use .txt file like demonoid. Of course, it is totally pointless anyway, as anyone who downloads torrent from NT already knows NT…