On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Jim Redmond <j...@scrubnugget.com> wrote: > The *entire point* of any wiki is that it should be easy to fix most > problems quickly. If a newbie makes mistakes - and they always will, > no matter how awesome our policies and tools are - then experienced > editors should just fix the mistakes and gently (!) inform the newbie > why they did what they did. Not only is that approach faster and > easier and less bite-y, but it also makes our content better *now*, > and it gives the newbie a chance to learn how we work.
Sadly, as long as there are buttons that let you revert an edit in one click (and requests for adminship that count the number of times you do so) people are going to click the button instead of fixing templates. -- Andrew Garrett http://werdn.us/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
