[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's administrative system

Sat Jun 17 21:49:39 UTC 2006

On 6/17/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> If one could actually correlate edit counts to success on the Wiki —
> something for which I imagine there is a high possibility, even if it
> has not here been proven — it is likely because a user with a large
> number of edits has invested more time here, understands how things
> work a bit better, and understands what sorts of arguments do and do
> not register. (New and outraged users usually think that decrying
> "censorship" is a useful strategy, for some reason; in reality, it
> just makes them look like total nutballs who can't construct a
> convincing argument.) It is also the case that users who stick around
> and edit a lot are likely to be noticed and recognized by others as
> good editors, and others are more likely to be sympathetic to them.
>

There is also the issue that someone with 20,000 would have rather a
large stake in the project.
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geni