# Wikipedia Turns 20 – and moderation innovations over the years **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [January 14, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wikipedia-turns-20-and-moderation-innovations-over-the-years/176116 "2021-01-14T17:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![ossia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ossia/32/215651_2.png) [@ossia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ossia)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wikipedia-turns-20-and-moderation-innovations-over-the-years/176116/1 "2021-01-14T17:41:56Z")
The Colombia Journalism Review (a big journal we used to read when I was working as a reporter) just published this 20 year retrospective on Wikipedia. And they talk about some of the moderation innovations over the years that have helped stabilize the site. > **[Wikipedia is twenty. It’s time to start covering it better.](https://www.cjr.org/opinion/wikipedia-is-twenty-its-time-to-start-covering-it-better.php)** > > Last year, as the election approached, we heard that the founder of 8chan had become an active Wikipedia editor. As reporters covering Wikipedia, the story seemed irresistible: the creator of the fringe image board, known as the breeding ground for... > Articles such as the “COVID-19 pandemic” are subject to [semi-protection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#semi), meaning that anonymous IP editing is not allowed and that any contributors must register an account. Other articles have more extensive protections, such as the article on Donald Trump, which has long been subject to [extended-confirmed protection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#extended), meaning that only Wikipedia editors who have been active for 30 days and who have performed at least 500 edits can directly edit Trump’s page. I think Wikipedia is an interesting case study, and that some of their innovations may make their way to larger Discourse instances, and perhaps to larger open source projects as well. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wikipedia-turns-20-and-moderation-innovations-over-the-years/176116)._