s/political/personal/g All slashdot style humour aside, the ongoing issue of petty fiefdom edit wars on the most inane topics is pretty well known. This and th

s/political/personal/g All slashdot style humour aside, the ongoing issue of petty fiefdom edit wars on the most inane topics is pretty well known. This and the acceptance of deletionist mindset despite the fact that there is so much automated tooling and maintenance helpers to negate the arguments around viewpoints purporting that without deleting things the wiki would become so big it couldn’t be maintained. I don’t even bother fixing obviously out of date stuff anymore because I honestly can’t be fucked. I don’t want to play a game of Russian Roulette with my personal time/effort or engage in some pseudo-MMORPG by “grinding for rep” on Wikipedia. If I want to fix an old low profile article about a science mission and correct its launch date (which is still in the future) … it should take a few seconds to edit 2020 to 2023 … not a few minutes spread over several days