[WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 22 December 2010 00:17, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Actually, I often see things that need fixing, but I'm in "look up"
> mode and using Wikipedia as a starting point for finding some
> information I'm after, and often don't have the time to even make a
> note to come back to the article later. If I see things that need
> fixing when I'm in "Wikipedian" mode, I do fix things then (but even
> then, there is a trade-off between temp fix now, or detailed fix that
> will take more time). It comes back to that trade-off in time spent
> doing other things.


Hm. I often hit "edit" on a section just to fix a typo I've spotted in
passing. Resisting the time-sucking qualities is, of course, a problem. But
when I'm reading other wikis I'll also happily hit edit to fix a typo (if
they allow IP editing).


- d.