can find a way to combine community participation with greater oversight, perhaps by encouraging every registered user to check changes and edits instead of leaving it largely to the central cabal of administrators, then they may be able to make the new approach work. Perhaps we should all be asked to check one random page for every ten or twenty we look at, giving our time to make the site work in return for better content? UPDATE: 29 AUGUST There's been quite a lot of discussion about this article over on the Wikipedia mailing lists, and as a result the details of what the German group are proposing to do are a lot clearer. Rather than hold any pending edits until they are approved, edits will still be allowed to any unlocked page on the site. Unregistered users will not automatically see these pages when they visit, so that the chances that someone will inadvertently come across a vandalised page should be reduced, but the pages will still be available if someone wants to see them. There's no decision yet as to who will be able to "approve" a page, and of course the English-language Wikipedia is simply watching what happens in Germany and seeing how it works, so there will be no change for those of us who use the English version. This clarifies a number of the points I raised in the article. I was wrong to say that "Under the new approach, page edits will no longer