[WikiEN-l] Short-lived retreat

[Matthew Britton]

Flame Viper wrote:
> The problem is that there are two different fields of
Wikipedia work: Editing and maintenance. Editing is the
general writing and improvement of articles, citing,
cleanup, categorisation, etc. Maintenance is the
vandalfighting, blocking, arbitrating, mediating, and
policy that provides the framework for the wiki.

It's not quite as simple as that. There are many tasks that
I would be hard pressed to class as either "editing" or
"maintenance". If anything, I'd draw the line so that
cleanup counts as maintenance.

In a similar vein, labelling someone as an "editor" or
"maintainer" is not possible.

-Gurch