Wikipedia to add editing safeguard

Wikipedia will soon add a feature to its English-language site that assigns an experienced editor to sign off on any changes to articles on living people, says CNet.

Confirming a story reported on Monday by The New York Times, Wikimedia Foundation spokesman Jay Walsh said the "flagged revisions" feature is already active on the German site, but needs some fleshing out before it goes live to the public on the English site.

The plan is to deploy the feature on a test wiki soon so the Wikipedia community can play around with before it goes public. The test wiki is expected to go live shortly, but no specific time frame has been established, Walsh said.

The UK's IT graduates could find it even more difficult to obtain work if new government proposals making it easier for multinational companies to transfer non-European Union graduates to UK offices take effect, reports Computing.co.uk.

The Association of Professional Staffing Companies said the Home Office's Migration Advisory Committee had proposed reforms to the current point-based system, which would allow the graduates to become eligible for intra-company transfers.

The transfers would be available to graduates from non-EU companies after just three months of employment at the sponsoring organisation, without that firm having to advertise vacancies in the UK first, according to the association.

The denizens of notorious imageboard 4chan are up to mischief again with an attack on Christians over the weekend, says The Register.

Login details and passwords from an unnamed social networking or dating site for Christians were posted as a file called "christian.txt" on 4chan. The information was spread among hackers, some of whom hit on the idea of hacking into the Facebook accounts of exposed users.

Given consumer password security is usually poor, it's no surprise that many victims used the same login credentials on both sites, which is one possible route of attack. Or it could be that e-mail accounts associated with profiles at the Christian dating Web site were hit first, before Facebook account passwords were reset.

There is uncertainty surrounding the purchase of file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay (TPB) by Swedish-based Global Gaming Factory (GGF), reports the BBC.

Trading in GGF shares has been suspended and there are reports that the firm's chairman - Magnus Bergman - has resigned. GGF paid 60 million kronor to take over TPB in June.

The Swedish stock market is investigating whether GGF has sufficient funds to complete the sale.