[Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

[Richard Symonds]

Not quite: I would argue that anti-vandalism work is a "gateway drug" to
the rest of the project. Just a hunch, though.
On Nov 20, 2013 5:21 PM, "Marc A. Pelletier" <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:

> On 11/20/2013 11:59 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> > An essential part of collaboration is, after all, reviewing each other's
> > work. From the terseness of the comment, it might be alluding to either
> > aspect or both.
>
> That's actually an interesting question that has been lurking beneath
> all the "editing is going down" nervousness.
>
> How much of that 'editing' was, in fact, busy work made immaterial by
> technical advantage (bots, extensions, abusefilter)?  The number of
> antivandalism edits a /human/ has to do in a day has most certainly come
> down a *lot* since c. 2006; this no doubt contributed to a large - now
> diminishing - fraction of total edits.
>
> It's not clear to me that the number of *productive* edits has been
> going down all that much (if at all) in the past several years; the
> proportion of edits that were tedious and repetitive clearly has.
>
> Are you arguing that there is *value* in volunteers spending time on
> work that could be automated?  Except for artificially driving up edit
> counts, that is time (and effort) that would be better spent pretty much
> anywhere else!
>
> -- Marc
>
>
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