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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by nathias on Friday October 07, 2022 @01:43PM (#33124597)
one simple mechanism would be to freeze the article editing for a bit when it becomes a hot topic in US media
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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by PopePompus on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:13PM (#33124982)
That is frequently done. A recent example is the article on "recession", which was frozen around the time that the US had two consecutive quarters of negative growth (often used as a definition for a recession).

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/29/1114599942/wikipedia-recessio...

There are differing levels of "frozen", which require differing levels of editor seniority to be allowed to edit.

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Re:School vs. Wikipedia by nathias on Friday October 07, 2022 @04:37PM (#33126601)
nice, I had no idea, I just remember seeing the edit wars on some hot topics a while ago
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