edit-war

present singular third person edit-wars · participle present edit-warring · participle past edit-warred · past edit-warred

1. alternativeAlternative form of edit war.

   Further up the ladder are editors with access to articles that have been restricted because of vandalism or “edit-warring.”

   2010, John K. Waters, The Everything Guide to Social Media: All You Need to Know About Participating in Today’s Most Popular Online Communities, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 185

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   This led to a serious of furious exchanges on the discussion page, with allegations of abuse of power by the admin, and anger that this had been done without bothering to understand that the “edit-warring” was not a real problem, but simply the result of (in what is so far the phrase of the year, and unlikely to be challenged for that title) “a rolling band of disruptive socks.”

   2007 August 21, Kirsten Anderson, “Wiki Wars”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2019

   Wikipedia bosses have temporarily “locked-down” the page, meaning it cannot be changed by anyone except administrators, because of what they call “edit-warring” between those working for Sir Norman and people who want to make mischief.

   2008 March 1, Daily Telegraph Reporter, “Wikipedia war over police chief’s page”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,507, page 11

   The article Jimmy Wales was not only begun by Jimbo Wales, as noted above. He has also edited it at least 18 times since. He has even, in a half-hearted way, edit-warred on the page, repeatedly deleting phrases that characterised Larry Sanger as co-founder of the site.

   2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Siduri, →ISBN, page 148

   “Wiki” articles are written and edited by users, with the aim of “neutral” accounts, but “edit-warring” has sought to portray Scientology in either a favourable or negative light.

   2009 May 30, Caitlin Fitzsimmons, “National: Internet: Wikipedia acts to stop Scientology ‘edit-warring’”, in The Guardian, page 12

   From the inside, on the other hand, Wikipedia may feel like a fight to get one’s voice heard. One gets a sense of this insider view from looking at the “talk page” of many articles, which rather than seeming like collaborations around the construction of knowledge, are full of descriptions of “edit-warring” — where successive editors try to cancel each others’ contributions out — and bitter, contentious arguments about the accuracy of conflicting points of view.

   2011 February 2, Justine Cassell, “A Culture of Editing Wars”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2011