[WikiEN-l] Semi-solid evidence that process is in fact dangerous to Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 04/09/06, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Answering "Who Writes Wikipedia?" in terms of number of surviving words is,
> no doubt, better than using edit counts.  But it is also may not be the best
> approach for the future, if we are really switching to a "quality over
> quantity" mentality.  At the least, there should be careful choices about
> what kinds of articles to analyze, before we put too much weight on results
> like these.  My intuition is that Featured Articles and Good Articles have a
> significantly larger portion of established editors as the main
> contributors, even by the word count metric.


That's because it's bloody impossible to get through them without
being fabulous at the politics, even for experienced editors. FAC in
particular is a great example of gratuitous requests for shrubberies
BY POLICY!!!


- d.