Posted 07/19/08 at 10:46:41 PM by Mark Edward Soper

 

Wikipedia is famous for being the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Unfortunately, there are numerous examples of so-called "Wikipedia vandalism," 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 flagged revisions 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.

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.

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