What percentage of the article can be edited at any one time?
Let's say it is 5%.
Is it possible to make a series of edits, so that 20 edits later, the
entire article would be totally changed?
It seems to me that the "small edits" policy is an advantage, a
strategy to prevent wholesale ransacking of controversial articles. I
think the "small edits" procedure is essential to preserve the integrity
of the system.
Personally, I have been amazed by how up-to-date some of the edits are.
I might be watching a championship boxing match on HBO on a Saturday
night and discover that the winner of the bout has already been noted in
the article on the boxers involved within a few hours after the fight
has ended.
These edits are, indeed, small but sufficient to keep the articles current.
Gordon Walter
Retired AGWSR School Librarian
101 Hilltop Drive
Ackley, Iowa 50601
Tel: 641-847-3315
Email: gordonwalter@mchsi.com
Cheryl Youse wrote:
> At an NEH workshop last summer, I spoke with representatives of the National
> Endowment for the Humanities about Wikipedia. They told me their
> frustration was that only a small part of it may be edited at one time, so
> it is never quite up to date. They tried to edit the page about NEH so that
> it was current but were not permitted to edit enough to make it so. I've
> used that example with my students as a reason why not to use Wikipedia.
>
>
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