On 11/20/2013 01:13 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > My general point is that opportunities for automation are best > considered with our overall mission in mind, not just the speed or > efficiency of a particular workflow. In certain situations, automation > that creates more work rather than removing it (such as by identifying > potential tasks and feeding them to editors) might be preferable. And > some of our tools already use such an approach, which is a good thing.
That's an interesting approach, but I'm not sure how constructive it is in the long run. I suppose it depends greatly on whether one considers our mission to be 'building an encyclopedia to share in the sum[...]' or 'having an encyclopedia to share in the sum[...]' (I'm not sure if I make the subtle distinction here clear). Perhaps another way of putting it is to ask whether the encyclopedia-building community is the means or the ends. To my eyes, having "more contributors" is not valuable unless it has "better encyclopedia" as a direct consequence. -- Marc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
