[Wikipedia-l] The New Yorker on Wikipedia

Mon Jul 24 13:46:14 UTC 2006

>But despite the occasional cluelessness or error, there are some
>genuinely interesting bits in there, even for a hardened editor like
>meself:
>"Wattenberg and Viégas, of I.B.M., note that the vast majority of
>Wikipedia edits consist of deletions and additions rather than of
>attempts to reorder paragraphs or to shape an entry as a whole, and
>they believe that Wikipedia's twenty-five-line editing window deserves
>some of the blame."

Yeah... structure is an issue. Section edit makes it easy to work quick, but
it gives no general structure to the work.I guess we should have people
specialising in structuring voices for better readability.

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