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Have you actually tried editing a Wikipedia article? I guarantee it will be changed back within about 5 minutes
by CryptoBanker 6y ago
Have you actually tried editing a Wikipedia article? I guarantee it will be changed back within about 5 minutes
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- grawprog 6y agoThat is if the article isn't locked for editing by approved editors only and you can actually edit it.
- waltpad 6y agoActually, I did that, numerous times, although it was mostly to do spelling correction or in one case linking to external pages trying to leverage Wikipedia's SEO(?) value (ie. the external pages were discussing the topic in the wiki page in order to promote their own business, which wasn't related at all), which shows that it's clearly easy to get Wikipedia to fulfill its purpose. So all in all what I did was minor editing, perhaps it doesn't count as what you would mean as an edit immediately reverted by other editors. I have no doubt that there are factions monitoring pages of strategic value, it makes sense for a website of that importance culturally. But it also means that the Wikipedia core community must always remain vigilant about these unfortunate slides.