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share this: freewheeling encyclopedia will begin requiring editor agree for all edits to outfit about living people. "The new feature, called 'flagged revisions,' will require that an seasoned volunteer editor for Wikipedia sign off on any change made by the public before it can go live. Until the change is approved — or in Wikispeak, flagged — it will sit invisibly on Wikipedia's servers, and visitors will be directed to the earlier version. ... The new editing procedures... have been applied to the entire German-language version of Wikipedia during the last year... though Wikipedia has prevented nameless users from creating new shebang* for several years now, the new flagging system crosses a intellectual Rubicon. It will divide Wikipedia's contributors into two classes — experienced, trusted editors, and everyone else — altering Wikipedia's implicit notion that everyone has an equal right to edit entries."

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