You know, I've been contemplating whether it's really in my best interests to send this email... ;-) Still, here goes:
I'm mildly amused that Eloquence has been criticised for adding a single sentence to a single policy page... Let's see: policy pages I've made major changes to over the last month or so: [[wikipedia:deletion policy]], [[wikipedia:protected page]], [[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers]], [[Wikipedia:Replies to common objections]], [[Wikipedia:Patent nonsense]] - oh, and minor changes around the place. I've generally been bold, and my copious screw-ups have been quickly caught and fixed. So the process seems to work.
One of the things I disliked about h2g2 was that it could take months to fix documentation bugs (that's not figurative: actual months. In one instance, it's been a year since the problem was first reported, and it's still not fixed). On Wikipedia, it's a matter of minutes, nay seconds. That's great - let's not lose that.
-Martin "MyRedDice" Harper.
martin@myreddice.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
One of the things I disliked about h2g2 was that it could take months to fix documentation bugs (that's not figurative: actual months. In one instance, it's been a year since the problem was first reported, and it's still not fixed). On Wikipedia, it's a matter of minutes, nay seconds. That's great - let's not lose that.
This seems to parallel the point that I was making to illustrate Wikipedia's primary competitive advantage over Britannica.
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