On high-traffic articles, or one where you are making complicated changes, it is often best to split things up and explain using edit summaries. It helps other editors follow what changes you have made. For new articles, or ones where you are the only editor or one of only a few editors, bigger changes and complete rewrites are less disconcerting. There may even be some readers who follow the edit summaries and step through the page history as well. Also, if you do things in stages, someone else, looking through the page history, can learn a lot about the different things that go into editing a Wikipedia article.
The two extremes are: (1) Writing an article offline that is close to featured status and saving that in one edit (but there will always be a need to get the article reviewed by others before putting it forward for formal review, as others will always see things that you miss, or have valid improvements to suggest); versus (2) Writing an entire article in stages (with or without others) and building it up *logically*, step-by-step from a stub to a featured article (and then turning that into some sort of video presentation or animated slideshow so others can learn from it). I wonder how many discrete "learnable" steps and edits a featured article, or various standard types of articles, can be broken down into? Carcharoth 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? > > Personally, I started out making lots of small edits, but lately I've > been the opposite of that. > > -MuZemike > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l