Interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/jimmy-wales-2-million-articles-down-and-more-to-do/

I thought this was a really interesting interview. Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites on the entire Internet. I've written some articles, some of which include: Microsoft Interview, Hilary Hahn, Jim Boeheim, American Competitiveness Initiative, and Eddie Jordan. There are a few others which I can't remember at the moment, but now I mostly police edits on various entries. Obviously, I think the concept of Wikipedia is a great one. Simply put, people who use Wikipedia need to understand that not everything there is accurate. In the ideal world people would only write on topics they are knowledgeable about and cite their sources. I do however feel that the "anyone can contribute" policy should be tweaked just a bit to only allow edits by people who create accounts. Most of the vandalism that I see come from completely anonymous IP addresses. I think changing over to this policy would reduce the amount of vandalism because it is easier to block certain accounts rather than IP addresses because those sometimes are shared. Also, people going through the effort to create an account are generally those who wish to contribute to the website as intended and would be less likely to vandalize/provide misinformation if their name is attached to a post.