[WikiEN-l] How Wikipedia works
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Wed May 26 01:39:29 UTC 2004
dpbsmith at 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
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