Change may put the wi in Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of the great online innovations of recent years. The online encyclopedia lets you - yes, you - edit entries.

But this concept has been slowly chiseled away at by domineering volunteer admins who instantly revert any edit they disagree with. I'll let you guess what political affiliation many of these admins are. Here's a hint: They ain't exactly leftists.

I'm certain this is a deliberate effort by right-wing operatives to turn Wikipedia into another revisionist retelling of The World According To Conservatives. Not a shadow of a doubt about it.

Now, after Wikipedia was hit by yet another campaign of right-wing misinformation, what's Wikipedia's response?

Welp, now Wikipedia is proposing giving these rogue admins even more power!

Under this proposal, only "trusted users" would see their edits appear immediately. Everyone else would have their edits vetted by the volunteer admins - many of whom helped create the crisis that this proposal is supposed to solve.

Doesn't this defeat the whole purpose of Wikipedia? Wikipedia exists for the public to edit - not for right-wing elites to censor information. If I wanted a filtered right-wing resource, I'd just turn on almost any TV talk show these days.

Wikipedia head honchos say a poll shows that 60% of the website's users favor such a change. But where was the poll? The poll sure as shit wasn't anywhere I could see it.

What Wikipedia ought to do is curtail the power of these volunteer admins - not expand it. Wikipedia was much more accurate and detailed several years ago before the right-wing intelligentsia learned it could infiltrate it. The last thing Wikipedia needs is to let the infiltrators win.

(Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/26/tech/cnettechnews/main4753223.shtml)