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I’d be curious to hear more about this. No need to link the page, but: - is Wikipedia’s reputation system useful for preventing this sort of abuse? I thought m
by jborichevskiy 7y ago
I’d be curious to hear more about this. No need to link the page, but:
- is Wikipedia’s reputation system useful for preventing this sort of abuse? I thought most changes have to be approved?
- how would one go about establishing the validity of a page from first glance? One thought I had is a browser extension which colors text according to its age on the page; relative to other text
- Stratoscope 7y agoNo, in general, changes to Wikipedia do not have to be approved. Anyone can edit and their changes go live immediately. You don't even need an account! But if you edit without an account, your IP address is recorded in the edit history. Accounts are recommended both for that reason and because an account gives you a contribution history and a "talk page" where other Wikipedians can communicate with you. Why don't you try it and see? Find a page where you can make a minor and non-controversial improvement: clarify some wording without changing the meaning, fix a grammar or punctuation error, etc. Create an account, make the change, and watch it go live! The check and balance here isn't that you need approval, but that others with an interest in the page will be watching for changes, and you may find your change reverted if some other editor doesn't like it. Of course if no one is watching the page, then you may have the problem lopmotr referred to.
- OJFord 7y agoThe weird thing to me is that IP bans supersede being logged-in to an account. So even if you're logged in, you can't edit from a large corporate/etc. network or commercial VPN.