All, I am seriously thinking about removing the rule against minor edits.
Now, I know that the reason for the rule was quite straightforward and persuasive: articles should not be subjected to minor edits for the simple reason that this will prevent the articles from being updated with the latest Wikipedia articles. But on second thought, I suspect this isn't going to matter. Frankly, many of the edits that we make on CZ aren't nearly as dramatic as the edits made on Wikipedia since the last update. So we will always be wanting to compare the CZ with the WP version. (Thus the need for that comparison tool.......programmers??? That's what I want for Christmas.) Therefore, it doesn't really matter how big the edits we've made will be. We will be toggling back and forth between WP and CZ all the time. Frankly, it doesn't even matter that much that we refresh our copy of WP's articles, as long as there is a quick and easy way to grab the latest from WP--as long as it's actually an improvement over what we have now, which it might not be! I'm inclined to do this for another reason, namely that two people now have told me they don't want to edit because they're inclined to make small edits. But I want to get those people (and there are, I know, a lot of them) involved, because every so often such people will also make big edits. Besides--we need the "gremlin" contributors, the yeomanly contributors, the ones who fix punctuation and stuff like that. They're needed and we shouldn't discourage them. --Larry Comments? Make them at: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,373.0.html _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
