On 12/03/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/12/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/11/07, Daniel P. B. Smith wikipedia2006@dpbsmith.com wrote:
If you say "I edit the Wall Street Journal" it means something quite different from "I edit Wikipedia."
Exactly. However, if the Wall Street Journal writes "Daniel Smith is a Wikipedia editor", what do you think it means? What do you think they mean? How do you think most people interpret it? Rename "editors" to "writers" or "contributors".
Any renaming we do is unlikely to affect the practices of the Wall Street Journal.
So if we refer to our article writers as writers instead of editors, the WSJ will continue calling them editors? I have my doubts.
I'd still call it their problem rather than ours. Most Wikipedia edits are much more akin to "subediting" rather than "writing." This is a project that really does have thousands of *editors* - it's the right word for what they do.
- d.