[Sig-bwp] NPR:Wikipedia to Require Contributors to Register

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Colleagues/

Wikipedia to Require Contributors to Register 
[ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5041077 ]

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian 
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

Guests:

The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, says users will now be required to register before they can create articles. The change comes amid complaints by journalist John Seigenthaler; his biography on the Web site claimed he was a suspect in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert Kennedy. Siegenthaler and Wales discuss the change in a follow up to a previous program on accuracy and accountability at Wikipedia.


John Seigenthaler, former editor and publisher of The Tennessean; former editorial editor of USA Today; founder of the The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University

Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikimedia Foundation