On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, MuZemike <muzem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As the title indicates, when working on articles, do you prefer making a > bunch of small edits or one or a couple of big edits? Well, I'm not sure my answer will be interesting to anyone other than your good self but... When I'm starting a *new* article (which I don't do much) I tend to save every 10, 15 or no later than 20 minutes as I go along. It's fear of losing work. I know an answer to that is to edit in some other application but I've never really felt motivated to explore other working methods. When *copy editing* an existing article I tend to do one edit per change (but it could be three or four changes if one short paragraph needs a lot of help). Various reasons; partly because I don't trust myself to remember necessary edits at the start of a section if I carry on and find issues at the end of a section; I like - increasingly - to write long edit summaries (I find writing something pithy about inserting a comma helps my morale, keeps me in good humour). I confess I do still "keep score" with my edit count, though more for a little personal buzz I get when I get past each thousand mark than to compare myself to others (although I still take the occasional look at the league table to see if I've re-appeared on it: answer "no" ;o) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l