[WikiEN-l] collective or collaborative areas of Wikipedia

[geni]

2009/6/19 Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at me.com>:
>> At one extreme reviewing at [[wp:FAC]] is very interactive and in my
>> experience usually very collegial.
>>
>> At the other extreme, when I'm feeling less sociable I find I can
>> while away hours eradicating preforming from the entertainment
>> industry or removing a surplus s to merge the Olympic sports of
>> synchronised ventriloquism and discus throwing.
>>
>> Somewhere in between is newpage patrol, most new articles are
>> written by newbies who haven't mastered categorisation and wiki
>> format. If you install hotcat and try to categorise new articles
>> you'll soon find yourself collaborating with lots of editors.
>
>        True, true. It would makes sense that different parts of the
> wikipedia need to have different levels of discussion.
>
>        What about wikiprojects? Are they very "collaborative", or do they
> serve only as assessment graders?
>

Varies from project to project over time. Some are quite collaborative
others more stick to highlighting weak points and standardisation.

Articles  on current events are commonly collaborative.

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geni