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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:46:44 -0500
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From: radek szulga <rsszulga@gmail.com>
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	Content preview:  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
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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.
Of course the reward for GAs and FAs is proportionally greater - as it
should be - but sometimes you just don't have the amount of time
needed to invest to do that, but you might have a little bit less time
to do some DYK-length work.

Radek


2009/6/23 Piotr Konieczny <piokon@post.pl>:

> I am =A0not so sure about that. You can develop content and have it
> featured as GA or FA. And you can get awards for that, too. True,
> writing a DYK is easier than writing a FA, but that's hardly surprising
> considering the quality requirements.
>
>
> --
> Piotr Konieczny
>
> "The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in
> theory."
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