Wikipedia was founded on the idea that anyone can contribute or edit an entry with their own information.
Information, of course, not ideas or opinions or thoughts or musings. But information, facts.
However it seems that Wikipedia has been forced to go back on its word, and the ideals it stands for are slowly changing as the site becomes more protective of its content.
Jesus, for instance, is a locked entry, edits cannot be made to the page.
It sounds a bit like what is nice in principal doesn’t really work in the real world. In the real world, people don’t all want to provide genuine valuable knowledge to a base of information. Some people just want to be vandals.
There are a total of 82 entries that are ‘protected’ and another 179 entries, including George W. Bush, Islam and Adolf Hitler that are “semi-protected”.
But how far should Wikipedia go to protect its pages? At what point does protection go to far and “anyone can edit’ becomes ‘only a few qualified people can edit this page, bad luck for you. go away’? Because when Wikipedia reaches that point, I think it’s lost its point.
Here’s a list of all of the protected entries.
I really hate the idea of reading a book on a computer screen. Books are meant to he touched, pages are meant to be flipped, and then they’re meant to be put on your shelf as decoration until the next time you or someone else picks them up again.





