Wikipedia Makes New Rules For Contributors

Plagued by complaints of misinformation, Wikipedia will “now require users to register before they can create articles. The website hopes that the registration requirement will limit the number of stories being created. ‘What we’re hopeful to see is that by slowing that down to 1,500 a day from several thousand, the people who are monitoring this will have more ability to improve the quality. In many cases the types of things we see going on are impulse vandalism’.”