dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
It is quite interesting how it works (and it does work). All is not sweetness and light, and there are mechanisms for banning problem users, protecting pages to stop edit wars and so forth, but probably 99.9% of all Wikipedia articles are created and written by users simply... writing them.
The reference to "edit wars" is well understood by Wikipedians, but to an outsider it is undefined jargon.
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