Wikipedia founder calls for stricter controls on English-language portal

The introduction of stricter control measures on the English-language portal Wikipedia.org called for by founder Jimmy Wales is causing fierce protests within the online encyclopaedia's author community. Until now, all users have been allowed to publish their own articles on the platform and edit existing articles. However, this is now set to change fundamentally. Wales is calling for new entries and changes to be reviewed and assessed by trusted Wikipedia authors before they are published. A similar control system has already been in use on the German-language version of Wikipedia since May 2008, according to Catrin Schoneville, spokesperson for Wikimedia Deutschland, when asked by Pressetext.
While Wales primarily wants to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles through the stricter review, many English-speaking authors now fear for the basic values of the online encyclopaedia, which was conceived as an open platform.