edit-war
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: edit-wars
form: edit-warring
form: edit-warred
form: edit-warred
Senses: examples: text: 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.”
ref: 2007 August 21, Kirsten Anderson, “Wiki Wars”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2019:
text: 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.
ref: 2008 March 1, Daily Telegraph Reporter, “Wikipedia war over police chief’s page”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,507, page 11:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Siduri, →ISBN, page 148:
text: “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.
ref: 2009 May 30, Caitlin Fitzsimmons, “National: Internet: Wikipedia acts to stop Scientology ‘edit-warring’”, in The Guardian, page 12:
text: Further up the ladder are editors with access to articles that have been restricted because of vandalism or “edit-warring.”
ref: 2010, John K. Waters, The Everything Guide to Social Media: All You Need to Know About Participating in Today’s Most Popular Online Communities, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 185:
text: 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.
ref: 2011 February 2, Justine Cassell, “A Culture of Editing Wars”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2011:
text: WikiHate, wikihate Counterproductive editing attitude and behavior, especially tendentious, biased and personally antagonistic types of edit-warring.
ref: 2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 223:
text: “Odd cross-wiki behaviour by someone in Germany; sometimes includes edit-warring and disruptive page creation [Bearbeiten]”
ref: 2014, Pnina Fichman, Noriko Hara, “Knowledge Sharing on Wikimedia Embassies”, in Pnina Fichman, Noriko Hara, editors, Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 118:
text: 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.
ref: 2014 August 4, Caitlin Dewey, “Men’s rights activists think a “hateful” feminist conspiracy is ruining Wikipedia”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2014:
text: An administrator wrote: ‘I have blocked you because despite previous explanations and a short block you have returned to edit-warring over the article.[…]’
ref: 2015 April 30, “69 rewrites earn Coburn a Wiki-block”, in Scottish Daily Mail:
text: 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.
ref: 2022, Danielle A. Morris-O’Connor, Andreas Strotmann, Dangzhi Zhao, “The colonization of Wikipedia: evidence from characteristic editing behaviors of warring camps”, in Journal of Documentation, volume 79, number 3, →DOI, pages 784–810:
glosses: Alternative form of edit war.