[Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

[Ray Saintonge]

On 10/31/11 1:31 PM, Michael Snow wrote:
>
> For me, the most common reason why an "edit" click is not followed by a
> "save" is because I end up not having the time to complete the work, or
> the edit I had in mind becomes more complicated than I thought
> (sometimes the latter partly explains the former). To put it
> idiomatically, it's a reaction to biting off more than I can chew.
>
> That may not be entirely typical, but in the sense of "editing proved
> more difficult than anticipated" it probably explains many abortive
> attempts at editing. I suppose it's been suggested before, but I think
> more fine-grained section editing capability, so you can simply
> highlight any portion of an article and open an edit window for just
> that portion, could be helpful.
>
This is completely understandable. I recently looked at a 13-page 
article in the Bullletin of the Pan American Union  for 1933 on 
"Hipólito Unánue." Our stub article shows him as president of Peru in 
1825-6. He wasn't. I had to ask myself how much time am I prepared to 
use for sorting this out.

Ray