[WikiEN-l] A new and ugly trend

[Eugene van der Pijll]

The Cunctator schreef:
> On 6/29/07, Eugene van der Pijll <eugene at vanderpijll.nl> wrote:
> and that a word with a spelling error is marked
> > "spelled wrong".
> 
> Fix spelling errors. THIS IS A WIKI. Are you seriously advocating that a
> spelling error should be marked with a footnote *instead* of being fixed?

I'm sorry, no, I think I was a bit too sarcastic.

One reason these tags may be necessary is because talk page don't work
as good for these issues as a few years ago.

It used to be that if you saw a problem with an article that you
couldn't immediately solve yourself, you'd leave a message on the talk
page: "Look at that sentence, it doesn't sound right, does anyone have
an idea how to improve it?"

It used to be that only a small fraction of our articles had talk pages.
If I came across an article with a blue link to the talk page, I always
took a look; sometimes there was an interesting didcussion, sometimes
just a cleanup notice.

Nowadays, 90% of our articles have a talk page, and 80% of them are
empty.[*]

> Because the reader is not an idiot.


Eugene


[*] I've got the talk page header boxes and the wikiproject pages turned
of in CSS as well. I wish that that would make red links of talk pages
containing boxes only...