On 14 August 2010 05:37, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Tony Sidaway <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Of course the older revisions remain in the history and anybody is free to >> extract a >> snapshot that he considers to be superior to the present one. > > I just did this at [[matter]], but the issue though is that there's no > way to really see what gold exists in previous versions, unless you > know what already exists there and understand what erosion has taken > place.
I've had to investigate articles in the past and there are some effective time-saving methods such as: looking at the editing as composed of different waves, characterized by the identity of the major editors; performing diffs at timely intervals (three or six months, say) to identify large scale changes. You might miss a shortlived improvement of course, but you still pick up on any significant trends in degradation. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
