One could see that as equivalent to a large OSS project that forbids you from writing two versions of the same function. Rewrite or improve the old one to be th

One could see that as equivalent to a large OSS project that forbids you from writing two versions of the same function. Rewrite or improve the old one to be the new canonical version, or fork the whole thing into a new project, but no adding extra noise that'll have to be maintained. One thing is to keep in mind too is the immense scale of Wikipedia, which is not true of all OSS. Any large project pretty much has to use a similar model of competitive cooperation and rules of the road (or sometimes just an authoritarian leader), or it quickly spirals into chaos.