Citations:wheel war

English citations of wheel war

• Hubert Ferdinand Opperman (1977) Pedals, Politics and People: “However, the novelty of a wheel war; lasting a week over country roads had generated tremendous metropolitan excitement”

Pavel Petr, David Roberts, Philip John Thomson (1985) Comic Relations: Studies in the Comic, Satire, and Parody: “The play's texture is literally a collage of texts, juxtaposed in one of the centres of international Modernism, the meeting place […] of James Joyc, Tristan Tzara and Lenin, revolutionaries turning around the fixed point of neutralism, the "still centre of the wheel war"”

• 1985, Howard Rheingold, Tools for thought: the history and future of mind-expanding technology, Simon & Schuster, p. 159,
• [1991, Eric S. Raymond, editor, The New Hacker’s Dictionary‎^[1], with Guy L. Steele Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 382:

  wheel wars [Stanford University] A period in larval stage during which student hackers hassle each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other’s files, and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser users.]

• The matter of pranks, of what the hackers called "wheel wars"—mucking up each other's files, trying to thwart each other or "crash" the operating system—was aprt of the working environment.
• 2001, KHMER NEAK SRE, “Norodom Sihanouk”, in soc.culture.cambodia‎^[2] (Usenet):

  What war was that? If it was not the deal and wheel war that killed only innocents?

• 2003 [likely older] Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> (2008 October 28 (last accessed)) “wheel wars”, in "The Jargon File, version 4.4.7"
• "[Stanford University] A period in larval stage during which student hackers hassle each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other's files, and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser users."

2008, David Andrews, “FW: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers”, in bit.listserv.ibm-main‎^[3] (Usenet):

> I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once
> wrote a program called "IJKEFT01"
Dave Phillips, Tom Rusnak and I once engaged in that sort of "wheel war"
about a million years ago.

((see: "http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.ibm-main/msg/d6a77979b897ce2f"))

• 2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The future of the Internet and how to stop it, Yale University Press, p. 290 (footnote #31),

  Wikipedia policy prohibits "wheel wars"—cases in which a Wikipedia administrator repeatedly undoes the actions of another—just as it prohibits edit wars.