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reproduction on the same page. This is possible, thanks to an extension that also
helps to trace and address users’ contributions.
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• A collaborative environment. Famously, the subheading of Wikipedia is ‘The
Free Encyclopedia’. This refers not only to its lack of a required payment but
also to the ability for anyone to freely edit any article, according to the rules
stated by the user community. This goal led to the development of MediaWiki as
software where every user can contribute to the editing of the articles and also to
discuss with other users the best possible ways to improve the contents of
each entry.
• Traceability and reversibility of any contribution. A collaborative environment
gives everyone the right to edit any content, and this requires not only that each
change must be attributed to the user who did it but also that it can be reversed in
case it is not considered by the community to be an improvement.
9 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page. This extension was originally
developed for the Wikimedia project Wikisource.
Fig. 21.1 The GATE logo, with an outlined detail of Saint Ignatius church façade (Rome)
21 GATE (Gregorian Archives Texts Editing): An Online Resource of Angelo Secchi…
reproduction on the same page. This is possible, thanks to an extension that also
helps to trace and address users’ contributions.
9
• A collaborative environment. Famously, the subheading of Wikipedia is ‘The
Free Encyclopedia’. This refers not only to its lack of a required payment but
also to the ability for anyone to freely edit any article, according to the rules
stated by the user community. This goal led to the development of MediaWiki as
software where every user can contribute to the editing of the articles and also to
discuss with other users the best possible ways to improve the contents of
each entry.
• Traceability and reversibility of any contribution. A collaborative environment
gives everyone the right to edit any content, and this requires not only that each
change must be attributed to the user who did it but also that it can be reversed in
case it is not considered by the community to be an improvement.
9 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page. This extension was originally
developed for the Wikimedia project Wikisource.
Fig. 21.1 The GATE logo, with an outlined detail of Saint Ignatius church façade (Rome)
21 GATE (Gregorian Archives Texts Editing): An Online Resource of Angelo Secchi…