Collaborative editing

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Collaborative editing is the practice of groups producing works together through individual contributions. Most usually it is applied to textual documents or programmatic source code. Such asynchronous (non-simultaneous) contributions are very efficient in time, as group members need not assemble in order to work together. Generally, managing such work requires software; the most common tools for editing documents are Wikis, and those for programming, version control systems. Most word processors are also capable of recording changes; this allows many editors to work on the same document while automatically clearly labeling who contributed what changes.

Wikipedia is an example of a collaborative editing project on a large scale.

See also

• Collaborative real-time editors
• Collaborative software
• Collaborative writing
• Ensemble collaboration
• Word processors