tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12840599.post116934211424149232..comments2023-10-28T03:54:08.569-04:00Comments on BlogAsheville: Asheville's Wiki warGordon Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07507309922707382050noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12840599.post-67725000827697219472008-04-21T16:59:00.000-04:002008-04-21T16:59:00.000-04:00It wasn't exaggerated. The term for this kind of t...It wasn't exaggerated. The term for this kind of thing is an "edit war." I didn't make it up, I just reported it. And the page was locked specifically because of the edit war, which is how I learned the term in the first place. Wikipedia doesn't lock pages over flame wars, since flaming takes place on the discussion page and not the article itself, but they do lock them over aggressive editing. As wars go, this was more of a border raid in the Balkans than a World War or something, but it still counts.<BR/><BR/>But I agree that the term is pure hyperbole. When you think about it, "flame war" is just as overblown a term. In the non-digital world, this would just be any other argument, not on par with a war at all.<BR/><BR/>But, you've missed the point. The thrust of the article was that Asheville's page was locked, not that edit wars exist. We're a self-obsessed little town, and I wrote the piece because I thought it was a good way of taking an increasingly notable national topic -- in this case, Wikipedia -- and putting a local angle on it.<BR/><BR/>Also, it's worth bearing in mind that this report was written in early 2007, before Wikipedia was quite the deep-rooted, omnipresent information source it is today. Like Craigslist and iTunes, it was still a relatively new idea for a lot of people a year-and-a-half ago.UnknownCityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05872080376890553773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12840599.post-1169492783917936262007-01-22T14:06:00.000-05:002007-01-22T14:06:00.000-05:00I think this report is exagerated. Edit war? Yes....I think this report is exagerated. Edit war? Yes. Flame war? Hardly. While there is a lot of passionate discussion on the article's talk page, there was very little "flaming". Apparently Steve isn't very familiar with editing and collaborating on Wikipedia where this kind of activity is commonplace. If you want to see real flaming, look at the George W Bush page.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com