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shared by amy wu on 27 Aug 09 - Cached

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that has increasingly drawn some decidedly juvenile pranks, is looking to impose more discipline with new restrictions on the editing of articles.
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The latest changes come as Wikipedia continues trying to balance a need for credibility and a desire for openness.
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The idea is to block the kind of high-profile vandalism that has marred some pages.
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The same flagging process, for example, has been imposed on all entries in the German-language Wikipedia for more than a year.
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Some believe Wikipedia must continue tightening editing policies if it wants to gain credibility.
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shared by Christoph Zed on 26 Sep 09 - Cached

Many deeply religious students from Europe come to Egypt to learn Arabic. The question is: are these European Salafists coming to study the language of the Koran or to prepare terrorist attacks?
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Young men with downy beards, caps, kneelength a traditional Arab galabeyas and sandals sat chatting in a McDonalds' restaurant in Nasr City, a large middle class district in the eastern part of Cairo.
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In the neighborhood Egyptians, the European Salafists - Sunni religious fundamentalists - are outsiders.
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Ashraf, a 26-year-old Dutchman of Moroccan descent, came to Cairo a year ago. "To learn Arabic," he says, "the language of my religion."
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"We aren't hurting anyone," says Ashraf, whose apartment was recently searched. "We only come to study and pray."
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"Religious fanatics want to be taken seriously," says Walid al-Gohari, founder and director of the Al-Fajr institute, one of the many language schools in Nasr City. "But Salafists who don't even know Arabic are not considered credible."
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The Egyptian security service is concerned about the situation. It therefore keeps a close eye on fundamentalist visitors with a European passport.
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As a precaution, the security service picked up hundreds of foreign students in a few days time, among them a few from the Netherlands.
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