On 9/7/07, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think simple reversions are the biggest problem -- I spent a long time streamlining the prose of articles back in '05 and early '06, and none of my changes were reverted -- but all of the improvements washed away within a couple months, regardless.
That's one of the weaknesses of massively collaborative writing, unfortunately. If all someone is changing is a sentence or two in any given revision, then over time inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies will accumulate and it requires someone to go through and unify the prose.