Re: [WikiEN-l] Little edits or big edits in the mainspace?

2010-09-17 Thread Renata St
I prefer one giant edit. When I write new articles, I usually write everything in one edit - no matter if it's a stub or future good article. If after that one edit I have to re-edit the article (typos, categories, ect), I get annoyed with myself. Therefore I use preview button a million times. I

[WikiEN-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copypasted books from Wikipedia

2009-08-13 Thread Renata St
It was raised before on the Village Pump, but I think this is so disturbing that we ought to do something. Alphascript Publishing has published over 1900 (and counting) books, all available on Amazon. Prices range from $31 to $179. All of these books are simple computer-generated copies from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copypasted books from Wikipedia

2009-08-13 Thread Renata St
have zero objections to that. I also know that the book extension to mediawiki was added exactly for this purpose. But in this particular case I think it's rather abusive. Renata On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:22 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Renata St renataw