dpbsmith(a)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.
Ec