null edit

English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

null edit (plural null edits)

  1. (wiki jargon) A blank edit action that results in no actual change to the page's content and may not be recorded in its revision history.
    • 2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 213:
      A null edit is made when an editor opens the edit window of a document then re-saves the page without having made any text changes.

Verb

null edit (third-person singular simple present null edits, present participle null editing, simple past and past participle null edited)

  1. (wiki jargon) To perform a null edit.
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