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This is why I think a GitHub-style model is more suitable for certain open, collaborative information - it's simply less prone to abuse. The editing and submission process is significantly more structured than a wiki, which prevents attacks like this.



Wikipedia has "pending changes" which is a bit like a pull request type model: you make edit and it sits in a queue for a reviewer to approve.

It's running on some pages on English Wikipedia. I'd love to see it rolled out to a lot more pages. On some language versions of Wikipedia, it's running on all pages: Polish, for instance.




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