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Wikipedia has plenty of gatekeeping too. I once had to submit a single edit three times before the moderators safeguarding the article begrudgingly accepted it.



They do, but they have a stated goal of maximizing contribution. Linux does not, right? I'm asking.


"Maximum number", perhaps not, but Greg KH did at one point want new contributors: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2ny1lz/im_greg_kroah...

Q: What would make you even more happy with Linux? GregKH: If you contribute to it.


The kernel dev process is more pathological than what I deal with at $DAYJOB.

Why the hell would I wish that upon myself?


A stable career where you can move to any of the companies who have a dependency on your subsystem.


But I already have that


happy 4 u


Different Wikipedia communities have different governance policies. In the math wikis there's generally a rule that small fixes are not allowed. This stops people from arguing whether slightly better explained sentences are the right edits.




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