edit war en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- ĕd′ĭt wôr′
- audio
- /ˌɛd.ɪt ˈwɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌɛd.ɪt ˈwɔɹ/ (Scotland)
- /ˌɛɖ.ɪʈ ˈwɔʳ/ (India)
- /ˌɛd.ɪt ˈwoɹ/ (Canada, General-American)
- /ˌed.ət ˈwoː/ (New-Zealand)
- /ˌed.ɪt ˈwoː/ (Australia)
Etymology
From edit + war.
Meanings
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(qualifier:wiki jargon) A dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work where opposing editors continually change the page without discussion.
As with dinner-table discussions, it is best to avoid editing articles about politics or religion unless one wishes to become entrenched in a perpetual edit war.
In 2008, doubters of the official account of the attacks — sometimes called truthers — were told by the arbitration committee not to edit the main page on the attacks after so-called edit wars over what should be included there.
2011 September 12, Noam Cohen, “On Wikipedia, Echoes of 9/11 ‘Edit Wars’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:An unproductive edit war results as editors change the page back and forth between two incompatible versions, without troubling to engage in discussions.
2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 388:Edit wars—about everything from Roseanne Barr to the Minneapolis suburb of Edina to the Death Star’s size to whether tigers are in fact “the most powerful living cat”—have been part of Wikipedia since its beginning.
2018 August 7, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality”, in The Atlantic:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| edit wars | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (19)
fi muokkaussota (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · pt guerra de edições (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · id perang suntingan (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · fi palautussota (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · pl wojna edycyjna (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · hu szerkesztési háború (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · ar حَرْب تَحْرِير (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · es guerra de ediciones (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · da redigeringskrig (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · ko 편집 분쟁 (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · ru война́ пра́вок (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · it guerra di modifiche (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · sv redigeringskrig (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · cmn 編輯戰 /编辑战 (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · fr guerre d'édition (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · ja 編集合戦 (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · de Bearbeitungskrieg (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · hi संपादन युद्ध (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work) · de Edit-War (a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work)