<quote who="Piotr Konieczny" date="Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 04:19:03PM -0400"> > Anonymous or low activity editors can contribute high quality > content, certainly, but quantity (and by extrapolation, most > quality) comes from registered ones. > > (Case in point: no GA or FA can be written by an anon, or a SPE; and > most of the primary contributors to those articles likely have many > high quality edits to a large number of other articles).
I'm not sure I disagree with your point but I think your evidence is unfair. Getting an article to a GA and FA is more a measure of how well somebody knows the Wikipedia rules and system and is able to jump through them. Only very active editors will even know that there is such a thing as a GA or a FA. That, alone, doesn't mean that most good encyclopedic content comes from people that do. Only that the cleanup necessary to satisfies Wikipedia's own internal guidelines does. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [email protected] http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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