[WikiEN-l] 10 Things You Did Not Know About Wikipedia
Steve Summit
scs at eskimo.com
Sun Mar 11 16:30:34 UTC 2007
I wrote:
> #4 ("You cannot actually change anything in Wikipedia") is weird.
> I see what you're trying to say, but the surface implications
> seem misleading. (I've taken a stab at editing it.)
But my edit got reverted, so I submit it here for consideration:
No one can actually make a permanent change to Wikipedia.
Anyone can edit Wikipedia, but what that does is to
create a new copy of an article, which is then implicitly
chosen to be the one shown to all readers by default.
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