On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Rob gamali...@gmail.com wrote:
There's also the lack of interesting controversies to spur editors'
interest in the Chilean earthquake. With Haiti, you had Pat
Robertson's stupid comments, the alleged attempted kidnapping of
orphans, the invasion of Scientology,
Has anyone been following the way editing has developed on the
en-Wikipedia articles on the Haiti and Chile earthquakes? It looks
quite different to me. For some reason, the editing has tailed off a
lot on the Chile earthquake article (could the fact that the article
was semi-protected for the
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Has anyone been following the way editing has developed on the
en-Wikipedia articles on the Haiti and Chile earthquakes? It looks
quite different to me. For some reason, the editing has tailed off a
lot on the Chile
I suspect the semiprotection has a lot to do with it. If our policies
were more clear, we wouldn't have a debate every time a high profile
event leads to a higher rate of editing. But we do, and a good portion
(maybe even a majority) of the time the related article(s) end up
protected in some
There's also the lack of interesting controversies to spur editors'
interest in the Chilean earthquake. With Haiti, you had Pat
Robertson's stupid comments, the alleged attempted kidnapping of
orphans, the invasion of Scientology, etc. Haiti's geographic
proximity also increased relative
