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radek szulga wrote:
> Yes but the problem is precisely that getting recognition for doing GA
> or FA takes sooo much work while DYK's are easier. There is no
> intermediate step between doing run of the mill edits and getting an
> article up to GA. Or rather, those intermediate steps are there but
> are not reworded. Getting an article fully cited or purging all that
> copy vio is about as much work as writing a DYK but you don't get much
> for it.

This is an interesting hypotheses, and one which could be developed into 
an interesting academic article. Note that MILHIST project rewards 
editors for incremental improvements (MILCON) and has other activities 
such as assessment drives; I wonder if this results in a different 
structure of their articles?
-- 
Piotr Konieczny

"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in 
theory."

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