On 10/19/06, Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
I have been increasingly worried about one editors contribution history lately. The vast majority (possibly over 90%) of their last 500 edits have been in Wikipedia/Wikipedia talk space. It is my understanding that Wikipedia: space is for editors to use to organise the development of articles.
My question is how does an editor--who spends all their time in Wikipedia space--know what they are trying to achieve?
I think that you need to be careful about that; I've seen quite a number of experienced editors and administrators fall into that trap for periods of time. I myself am currently extricating myself from an hole I fell in for a couple of months, doing much more "administrative stuff" in wikispace and talk than any real article edits. Fortunately I realized what I was doing, and simultaneously realized there were several whole classes of engineering materials articles which didn't exist yet, so I've started working on those...