On 22 December 2010 09:53, Peter Coombe <thewub.w...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I do think there are fewer opportunities for such "easy" edits on > Wikipedia now. Typos seem to be far less common thanks to > semi-automated tools such as AWB, and most articles are generally more > mature. I had an interesting discussion a year or two ago with someone about the absence of redlinks in "high-quality" articles - in the past few years, there's been a definite trend to arguing that redlinks are detrimental to a finished article, and should be removed even when an article is pretty much guaranteed to be created eventually. Net result, of course, is that the article is more polished-looking - to us, at least, even if not to a reader unclear on the red/blue distinction - but has marginally less reminders of its editability. I suspect this is part of a similar trend! It reminds me of the spirit of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Always_leave_something_undone "Whenever you write a page, never finish it. Always leave something obvious to do: an uncompleted sentence, a question in the text (with a not-too-obscure answer someone can supply), wikied links that are of interest, requests for help from specific other Wikipedians, the beginning of a provocative argument that someone simply must fill in, etc. The purpose of this rule is to encourage others to keep working on the wiki." -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l