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

[Peter Ansell]

On 05/09/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!!!
>

Do we have to run the gauntlet of knights who say "ni!" ?

Peter Ansell