eventualism
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eventualism (uncountable)
- (Wikimedia jargon) A wikiphilosophy which emphasizes the importance of an article's value in the distant future.
- Antonym: immediatism
- 2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, →ISBN, page 121:
- Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').
- 2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 121:
- For some, eventualism is a fancy name for "passing the buck." It is being lackadaisical in doing something right now to fix things. For professional writers, editors, and academics, leaving things in a half-baked state was a clear departure from their comfort zone. But given the masses of wiki, Slashdot, Usenet, and open source software veterans, eventualism remained the prevailing attitude, at least in the early days.
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Eventualism on Meta-Wiki.Meta-Wiki 
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