QUOTE(Newyorkbrad @ Fri 15th May 2009, 12:54pm)
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Fri 15th May 2009, 10:24am)
One of the questions that always comes to mind when discussing ArbComics, stand-up or otherwise, is this —
How could any Wikipedian, much less a high ranking one, be sooooo clueless about the realities in the trenches of Wikipedia?
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Jon Awbrey
Well, yeah. When I started I contributed to mainspace, including having created more than 75 pages, but lately I've been focused primarily on arbitration and related activities.
Although I'm not denying the trend you see there, do bear in mind more generally that the pure edit-number data can be misleading. If I create a page in mainspace, that's one edit. If I then vote paragraph-by-paragraph through an arb decision, that can be 20 edits …
I am determined to get back to more article work once the current round of ArbCom cases is wrapped up and my guest-blogging stint on Volokh is completed. And I'm sure Mr. Awbrey will remind me if I forget, because making sure that there are lots of good contributions to Wikipedia mainspace is very important to him. (IMG:
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Do what you like. I am simply stepping through the steps of the inquiry process, that begins by "abducing" an explanation for a surprising observation.
The surprising observation is that a presumably intelligent person could continue repeating the same old mythology about Wikipedia — after all these years — in the face of all the contrary evidence that spits in the face of every trooper who spends a long enough time in the trenches.
There are as many likely explanations as there are favorite ways of denying the evidence — I simply picked on a likely first guess.
Of course, it hardly amounts to a fair test anymore — a Modern Major General slumming in the trenches for a day is just not going to get dressed down for having lacquered brass, now is he?
So you really missed out on all that, poor sap …
Jon Awbrey