There was a time when Wikipedia editors invited more people to join them and help write articles...
Maybe they should implement a software solution to a social problem. Something like: “if someone who is higher in the Wikipedia hierarchy than you has already edited an article, you are not supposed to modify this article (or maybe just the sections that they have edited)”. This could avoid many unnecessary conflicts, and the result would be the same as now that they battle it out in the talk pages.
This is even closer to home—David Gerard has commented on the Wikipedia Talk Page and referenced this LW post: https://web.archive.org/web/20250814022218/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mechanistic_interpretability#Bad_sourcing,_COI_editing
There was a time when Wikipedia editors invited more people to join them and help write articles...
Maybe they should implement a software solution to a social problem. Something like: “if someone who is higher in the Wikipedia hierarchy than you has already edited an article, you are not supposed to modify this article (or maybe just the sections that they have edited)”. This could avoid many unnecessary conflicts, and the result would be the same as now that they battle it out in the talk pages.