edit war

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

edit war (plural edit wars)

1. (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) A dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work where opposing editors continually change the page without discussion.

   As with dinner-table discussions, it is best to avoid editing articles about politics or religion unless one wishes to become entrenched in a perpetual edit war.

Translations

a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work

• Arabic: حَرْب اَلتَّحْرِير f (ḥarb at-taḥrīr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 編輯戰／编辑战 (biānjízhàn), 编辑战 (biānjí zhàn)

• Danish: redigeringskrig n
• Dutch: bewerkingsoorlog (nl)
• Finnish: muokkaussota, palautussota
• French: guerre d’édition (fr) f
• German: Edit-War m, Bearbeitungskrieg f
• Hungarian: szerkesztési háború
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: perang suntingan
• Italian: guerra di modifiche f
• Japanese: 編集合戦 (へんしゅうがっせん, henshū gassen)
• Korean: 편집 분쟁 (pyeonjip bunjaeng)
• Portuguese: guerra de edições f
• Russian: война́ пра́вок (ru) f (vojná právok)
• Spanish: guerra de ediciones f
• Swedish: redigeringskrig n

Verb

edit war (third-person singular simple present edit wars, present participle edit warring, simple past and past participle edit warred)

1. (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) To engage in such a dispute.

   When a dispute arises, it is common to see a page protected to avoid edit warring.

Translations

to engage in an edit war

• Swedish: redigeringskriga
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• wardite