It was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation for use on Wikipedia and similar wikis hosted on its servers.
[3] It was considered a possibility that all articles would be covered by this feature in the future, just like in the German Wikipedia.
[1] Brennon Slattery of PCWorld reported that "some bloggers" received the announced changes as a "failure" of the philosophy behind Wikipedia.
[5] According to the chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation board at the time, with this policy there is less tolerance for "inaccurate or fudged" articles.
[1] The feature is based on a plug-in for the MediaWiki software that prevents recent changes to wiki articles from being displayed to all readers until they have been ratified by editors with special permissions.