On 11/20/2013 11:59 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > An essential part of collaboration is, after all, reviewing each other's > work. From the terseness of the comment, it might be alluding to either > aspect or both.
That's actually an interesting question that has been lurking beneath all the "editing is going down" nervousness. How much of that 'editing' was, in fact, busy work made immaterial by technical advantage (bots, extensions, abusefilter)? The number of antivandalism edits a /human/ has to do in a day has most certainly come down a *lot* since c. 2006; this no doubt contributed to a large - now diminishing - fraction of total edits. It's not clear to me that the number of *productive* edits has been going down all that much (if at all) in the past several years; the proportion of edits that were tedious and repetitive clearly has. Are you arguing that there is *value* in volunteers spending time on work that could be automated? Except for artificially driving up edit counts, that is time (and effort) that would be better spent pretty much anywhere else! -- Marc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
