http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/information used for category lists, takes arguments en http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/wikipedia_tests_approval_system_reduce_page_vandalism <div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.maximumpc.com/files/u21826/wiki_header.png" alt="Wikipedia tests approval system on German-language site" width="410" height="298" /> </div><p>Wikipedia is famous for being the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Unfortunately, there are numerous examples of so-called &quot;Wikipedia vandalism,&quot; where the reputations of people past and present have been blackened by bogus entries in their Wikipedia pages. To help reduce vandalism, Wikipedia is now experimenting with <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/wikipedia-tries-approval-system-to-reduce-vandalism-on-pages/index.html?ref=technology">flagged revisions</a> on its German Wikipedia site, which is apparently a hotbed of vandalism. When pages are changed, a checker must sign off on the changes to a page before they are posted. </p><p>How big a problem is Wikipedia vandalism? How do we know that the checkers who approve pages can be trusted? And what do Wikipedia fans think about all of this? To find out more, join us after the jump.</p><p><a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/wikipedia_tests_approval_system_reduce_page_vandalism">read more</a></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/wikipedia_tests_approval_system_reduce_page_vandalism#comments News Windows information Security vandalism Wikimania 2008 wikipedia Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:46:41 -0500 Mark Edward Soper 2831 at http://www.maximumpc.com http://www.maximumpc.com/article/data_security_sunday <p>Job-seekers and retirees get their personal information compromised, reminding us all of the importance of data security breach notification laws.</p> <p><a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/data_security_sunday">read more</a></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/data_security_sunday#comments News breach california data data security breach notification information Law law notification Privacy Security Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:51:29 -0500 Erin Simon 1336 at http://www.maximumpc.com