edit war

See also: edit-war

English

Etymology

From edit +‎ war.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

edit war (plural edit wars)

1. (Wikimedia 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.

   • 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:

     An unproductive edit war results as editors change the page back and forth between two incompatible versions, without troubling to engage in discussions.

   • 2011 September 12, Noam Cohen, “On Wikipedia, Echoes of 9/11 ‘Edit Wars’”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

Translations

a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work

• Arabic: حَرْب اَلتَّحْرِير f (ḥarb at-taḥrīr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 編輯戰／编辑战 (zh) (biānjí zhàn)

• Danish: redigeringskrig n
• Finnish: muokkaussota, palautussota
• French: guerre d’édition (fr) f
• German: Edit-War m, Bearbeitungskrieg f
• Hungarian: szerkesztési háború
• Indonesian: perang suntingan
• Italian: guerra di modifiche f
• Japanese: 編集合戦 (へんしゅうがっせん, henshū gassen)
• Korean: 편집 분쟁 (pyeonjip bunjaeng)
• Portuguese: guerra de edições f
• Russian: война́ пра́вок (ru) f (vojná právok)
• Spanish: guerra de ediciones f
• Swedish: redigeringskrig (sv) n

Verb

edit war (third-person singular simple present edit wars, present participle edit warring, simple past and past participle edit warred)

1. (Wikimedia jargon) To engage in an edit war.

   When a dispute arises, it is common to see a page protected to avoid edit warring.

Alternative forms

• edit-war

Translations

to engage in an edit war

• Finnish: muokkaussotia
• Swedish: redigeringskriga

See also

• edit warrior

Anagrams

• wardite