[WikiEN-l] Being bold doesn't work anymore, or why our prose is so bad.

[Stephen Bain]

On 9/7/07, Ben Yates <ben.louis.yates at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think simple reversions are the biggest problem -- I spent a
> long time streamlining the prose of articles back in '05 and early
> '06, and none of my changes were reverted -- but all of the
> improvements washed away within a couple months, regardless.

That's one of the weaknesses of massively collaborative writing,
unfortunately. If all someone is changing is a sentence or two in any
given revision, then over time inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies will
accumulate and it requires someone to go through and unify the prose.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com