Collaboration is a very intense way of working together while still retaining the separate identities, autonomy, and decision-making authority of the organizations involved. The beauty of collaboration is the acknowledgment that each organization has a separate and special function, a power that it brings to the joint effort. At the Collaboration : same time, each separate organization provides valuable services or products often critical to the health and well-being of their community. When the problems have been addressed, or the system has been improved, the collaboration is over.
The identities of the feminist editors weren't specified in the article, and with good cause: They didn't exist. At no time in the entire case were there "five feminist editors" up for a ban. But understandable outrage at the supposed misogynist move blew up on the Internet. And more stories followed-in Gawker, Raw Story, the Mary Sue, Inquisitr, and ThinkProgress-all sourcing the Guardian, spreading the myth of the fabled five feminist editors who were the only thing holding off Gamergate's takeover of Wikipedia.