Wikipedia editorial rules to be tightened

[Steve]

Wikipedia is a wonderful resource, but it's so easy to vandalise that it happens all the time. They're trying to change that. Reuters reports:

"There may soon be so-called stable contents. In this case, we'd freeze the pages whose quality is undisputed," he said.

Citing a recent example of vandalism, Wales recalled how following the election of the new Pope Benedict in April, a user substituted the pontiff's photo on the Wikipedia site with that of the evil emperor from the Star Wars film series.

"The picture was only on the page for a minute. But whoever opens the article at this moment will get annoyed -- and therefore doubt our credibility," he told the paper.

Restricting access to entries particularly susceptible to unwanted attention could be one way of preventing this, he said.

Freezing a page doesn't sound like a good idea to me. I'd prefer a moderation system for certain pages or page types, meaning that any submitted changes are not put into effect until they are verified by a moderator.

[DavidM]

A Wiki I ran was constantly being hacked by link-spammers... It's rather annoying to say the least...

[Mike Fishcake]

I can't see how it's not happened far more frequently TBH. I know it's against the policy of a wiki, but surely there should be some sort of moderation anyway?