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As a method of allowing ordinary editors to still participate in this exclusive activity, the Votes for
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Variation on the version system sketch, whereby randomly selected editors have the ability to say that a version is better or worse than it could be, the random selection of editors being changed every 2 hours, with better (determined by scores for versions they have worked on) editors having more
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Anyone can edit
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