----- Original Message ----- > From: "MZMcBride" <z...@mzmcbride.com>
> Much of the content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis comes from > non-vested contributors. That is, many, many helpful additions and > corrections come from people who will make only a few edits in their > lifetime. While I can't disagree with the suggestion that reverting is > easier than fact-checking, I very much doubt that assuming bad faith > helps build a better project or a better community. And this is to say > nothing of the fact that the seemingly simple act of providing a reference is > often painful and unintuitive, particularly in established articles > that employ complicated markup (infoboxes, citation templates, and ref > tags). My first 2 edits at TV Tropes had this property: not only were they reverted, they were both reverted with snotty comments about procedure, and *the second one was me doing what the first one had yelled at me for not doing*. And I got yelled at the second time for following instructions. I gave up. It's fun to read, but not worth my time to contribute to. I concur with MZM: We don't want to become that. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
