Meaning of edit-war | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [B2]

Examples

“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.””

“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.”

“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.”

““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⟳.”

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

“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⟳.”

“WikiHate, wikihate Counterproductive editing attitude and behavior, especially tendentious, biased and personally antagonistic types of edit-warring.”

““Odd cross-wiki behaviour by someone in Germany; sometimes includes edit-warring and disruptive page creation [Bearbeiten]””

“And while Esmay cites several instances of feminist “bullying” and “censorship,” the talk⟳ and user pages — which record⟳ disciplinary action against Wikipedians — suggest⟳ that most MRAs were banned for edit-warring (i.e., redoing the same changes over and over), for editing a topic with a conflict of interest⟳, or for making personal attacks against other editors — all of which are violations of Wikipedia’s terms.”

“An administrator wrote: ‘I have⟳ blocked you because despite previous explanations and a short block⟳ you have⟳ returned to edit-warring over the article.[…]’”

“Quantitatively, the authors identify⟳ edit-warring camps across many conflict zones of the English language WP, and profile and compare⟳ success rates and typologies of camp edits in the corresponding topic areas. […] Through a large-scale quantitative study⟳, the authors find⟳ that winner-take-all camps exhibit biasing editing behaviors to a much larger extent than the camps they successfully edit-war against, confirming findings of prior small-scale qualitative studies.”

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