Well, sort of.
It could only really last so long really. If you are looking for one central target for abuse on the internet, Wikipedia has to be a good candidate.
But it was also a shining star. If anything saved my belief in humanity, it was Wikipedia and the general concept of wikis. The fact you could put something on the internet that anyone could edit and people wouldn’t crap all over it and abuse it as much as possible.
Of course this isn’t the case, there is a lot of abuse of wikis, most of which seems to be targetted at mine. Still, it was nice to imagine, at least for a little while that people on the internet were on the whole nice people that weren’t looking to screw you.
Wikipedia has now increased it’s restrictions though. It has three levels, protected (nobody can edit), semi-protected (you need to be registered for 4 days) and unprotected. Recently, lots of pages have been moved onto a higher protection level. To stop abuse of course, but it’s a sad that they need to use this kind of protection to protect pages.
If you want to read more about the changes, there is an article on News.com.
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