EDIT SUMMARY
If you look at the contributions of the person that reverted
you, and did not leave
an edit summary, in most cases an administrator, you will find that yours
was 1 out
of 10 they have made in last 60 seconds or more , with that kind of
editing they are
not looking
at what you have done, but the fact that you are an IP editing, they are
eather watching
you from past edits (stalking you) or watching real time edits done by
IP’s.
your good faith edit and your discussion on the talk page are not looked at, and
even
the talk – discussion page is reverted.
(talk page en wikipedia and discussion page wikidata)
Not knowing what you have done wrong, if any, starts
edit wars, or notice board
complaints and page blocking etc.
To that end and to stop one part of the problem on en wikipedia and
wikidata etc..
the edit summary needs to be mandatory to the point that the save will not
work until
you type something in the box, and that the the default summary message is disabled .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summary
From: Kerry Raymond
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2018 10:38 PM
To: 'Research into
Wikimedia content and communities'
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia
surveyare published!
As
advice to an individual editor on how to deal with good faith but problematics
edits, I would say give the newbie feedback on exactly what the specific problem
is with their reverted edit explain how to fix it, and continue to watch the
article and their user talk page to see how they are going, and keep offering
help until they get it right.
For my long answer on how to do it at
scale, see my other longer email.
Kerry
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From: Wiki-research-l
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Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2018 5:01 AM
To: Wiki Research-l
< wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l]
Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are
published!
Kerry,
This discussion about reverts, combined with my
recent experience on ENWP, makes me wonder if there's a way to make reverts feel
less hostile on average. Do you have any ideas about how to do
that?
Thanks,
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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