[WikiEN-l] Article quality deterioration (was: a valid criticism)

Tue Oct 11 01:42:01 UTC 2005

On 10/11/05, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So people just edit war over the position of the marker.
>
> Yes, that's why it's inherently wiki. :)
>
> But there's less disruption than trying to force your definitive edit
> in the "current" version. And it would seem a step in the right
> direction towards "version 1.0."
>
>
Edit wars effectively devolve to dicking around with the marker, especially
under MediaWiki 1.5 in which we keep a single copy of the text and only
create a new timestamp entry.