Yes, trying to force people to do big edits is a bad idea. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:19 AM, WereSpielChequers < [email protected]> wrote:
> I'm afraid I have to disagree with David Goodman's final paragraph > calling for an end to minor improvements to articles. I have done many > thousands of such minor edits in my time, tasks such as going through > all the articles with the word preformed and changing almost all to > performed. That has resulted in my making minor improvements to many > articles which I care nothing about and don't read more than the > paragraph or sentence that I fix, other times I find an article > interesting, read the whole thing and perhaps come across something > else I can correct. I believe that on the whole what I do is useful, > and I enjoy doing it. If I was paid to systematically go through > wikipedia articles checking each whole article completely and fixing > the errors I find, I am pretty sure the total improvement to Wikipedia > I would make would be less per hour than my contributions as a > volunteer, and of course there is the little matter of cost. Enabling > volunteers to improve the bits of Wikipedia that they volunteer to do > is much more cost effective than employing people and telling them > what to work on. > > WereSpielChequers > > > The change that would make the biggest difference is that each person > > who looks at an article for any reason , such as fixing typos or > > adding categories or disam links, actually try to spot any serious > > problems, not just do the routine task they came for. There are too > > many BLPs that have been looked at twenty times, but none of them > > carefully. > > > > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
