<div dir="ltr">I wrote an article somewhat in the same vein:<div><br></div><div>> <a href="http://macwright.org/2013/10/15/point-and-shoot.html">http://macwright.org/2013/10/15/point-and-shoot.html</a><br></div><div><br>

</div><div>Perhaps something to note is that, beyond technical and policy issues, one of the more common complaints about Wikipedia is that there's an unfriendly, elitist attitude amongst the established editors. My article asks for some relatively deep changes to infrastructure and user experience, but the more actionable and immediately useful thing that everyone can do is to be friendly.</div>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Jason Remillard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remillard.jason@gmail.com" target="_blank">remillard.jason@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
The MIT technology review just published this article on Wikipedia.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/" target="_blank">http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/</a><br>
<br>
It is sport criticizing Wikipedia, but two things stuck out.<br>
<br>
Wikipedia is trying to get more editors. However, they seem to have<br>
some additional problems that OSM does not have.<br>
<br>
Wikipedia failed to roll out the new GUI article editor.<br>
<br>
If you read the discussion on hacker news, and Slashdot.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/23/1643228/wikipedias-participation-problem" target="_blank">http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/23/1643228/wikipedias-participation-problem</a><br>
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612638" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6612638</a><br>
<br>
It seems like Wikipedia has revert first policy on questionable edits.<br>
It makes it unpleasant to start with the project, since probably every<br>
bodies first edits are questionable.<br>
<br>
OSM policy/culture of discussing a change *before* reverting is really<br>
good thing.<br>
<br>
Jason<br>
<br>
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