On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
You can out a date limiter on that URL so it won't become outdated. This one should work indefinitely (unless some of the edits get deleted):
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Gwern&of...
Neat. I didn't know we could do that.
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
PS. You didn't have to spam links to your 'experiment' in the revert edit summaries, you know. Some good-faith editors may get upset by that.
I disagree. The edit summary box is far too short to include any real explanation, so a link to the full explanation is best. The other alternative is to include no explanation in any form, and I regard that as unacceptable - people should know why some an apparently useless edit and revert were done.
The edit summary was:
"rv test of editors for this page; you failed. see http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism#sins-of-omission-exper..."
This is something else that could have benefitted from outside input. Some of the attitude you have towards all this rolls off the page, with phrases such as "perhaps editors collectively know that putting a link into a section named ‘External Links’ is painting a cross-hair on its forehead".
I should pretend I have no point of view and I am disinterested while somehow not being uninterested? Academics may have to adopt such an imposture, but I do not. As long as my 'snark' does not change the results - as it does not - I do not care.
My view is that if such experiments are to be carried out, it would be better if they were designed and conducted by those able to restrain themselves from such snark.
Better how?