2012/1/20 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
The biggest difference was in the editorial process - deciding on the scope of the article, finding reviewers, proofreading, communicating with other writers etc. Since it's not over yet, i cannot write more about it, but the comparison between that and writing for Wikipedia would be hugely interesting.
I appreciate you can't say more right now, but can you say whether "deciding on the scope of the article, finding reviewers, proofreading, communicating with other writers" is referring to the process on Wikipedia or the process for the encyclopedia you are writing for? In my view, that process you describe is how writing on Wikipedia *should* work. Whether it does in practice or not is another matter.
It referes to both. These things are done both in Wikipedia and in the paper encyclopedia for which i wrote, but they are done entirely differently. Possibly they are so different that you would even say that on Wikipedia you can't use these words to describe them.
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