Comments on: Five Wikipedia Predictions: A New Year

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:08:22 +0000

So, what are your five predictions for 2007?

By: Michael Kohne

Michael Kohne — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:48:41 +0000

Their entire schtick is based on ‘anyone can edit it’, and they don’t want to have to surrender that perceived ideal, even in the face of the facts. They are proceeding in exactly the same manner as previous attempts to deal with similar problems (spam particularly). Eventually they’ll figure out something that’s workable, or they will become perceived as unreliable due to the volume of crap.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:35:48 +0000

As a consequence of them still allowing anonymous, non-logged in edits, the admins have been banning whole countries, regions, school districts, universities, companies that use proxies, and most AOL users.
If they just required all users to create an account and banned by account instead of IP, they wouldn’t have to block entire countries, but I guess they like that kind of perceived power.