On 10/22/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/23/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
By "real edits" I mean edits to directly improve articles in the main namespace.
Does removeing deleted images count?
By "work" in this context I mean a person's overall efforts in any namespace.
Can I count the effort that goes towards getting certian pics?
Why even worry about the distinction? The notion that we should be micromanaging other people's editing habits, or really entertain the notion that one sort of editing is more "real" than the other, seems totally counterproductive to me. Last time I checked this was a volunteer enterprise with no shortage of database space, so who cares?
More damage seems to be caused by the periodic attempts by people to enforce their own "Wikipedia norms" onto others than by any of the "deviant" behaviors by themselves. We must accept that something as decentralized and sprawling as a massive wiki will not be a tightly-run ship. It can't be, and it doesn't need to be. It's a bazaar, not a cathedral, to use Raymond's terms.
If two dozen editors want to use Wikipedia to play Sudoko all day, it is easier to let them do it than it is to bother with trying to create complicated metrics, guidelines, and rules, and then enforce them and deal with adaptation, resistance, and frustration.
FF