[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] Edits by project and country of origin

[David Gerard]

On 04/09/06, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:

> The real problem is the possibility  of English-as-a-second-language speakers
> (or third or fourth language)  becoming a majority of users on en.wiki and
> the impact that this would have  on the basic quality of writing. It has already
> becoming an issue in  some areas of content related to India, where the prose
> requires inordinate  cleanup just to make it legible.
> To be clear, I am *not* saying that these contributions should be
> discouraged--only that they come at some cost.


Sounds like something for a specialised cleanup crew. The thing that
makes cleanup really horrible is when the articles are badly
structured as well - are these at least usable articles with only
grammar cleanup?


- d.
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