On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Mohit Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello folks, > > It sounds silly asking this sort of question after ten year of birth > of wikipedia, but I really don't know how wikipedia exactly maintains > the authenticity of its articles as everyone can edit any article > (some articles after proper login), anyone can put any article and so > on. As I can't edit the article page 'India' since it's a featured > article but I can edit information about Mr. Manmohan Singh who is > prime minister of India. In this case I can put any false information > about him, so I want to ask how it'll be monitored and moderated, if I > put any false information about any article on the wiki ? > > its basically govered by these five rules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:5P you will get your answer of changing some content in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view , also for testing try changing some page you will know how fast it gets reverted , there are marshals around ;-) . -Satya -- LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
