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[Kat Tanaka Okopnik]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:54:40PM -0700, Raj Shekhar wrote:
> In infinite wisdom Rick Moen said the following On 6/3/09 4:39 PM:
> 
> > - Enough people copyediting so that the loss of one or more
> >   volunteers a month doesn't lead to a critical
> >   shortage. Additionally, more copyeditors means fewer mistakes make
> >   it through, and less burden on any one editor.  *Many* people
> >   should be reading each article, and no one should be feeling
> >   pressured to read all the articles unless they wish to. We need
> >   more technical editors to vet articles within their realm of
> >   expertise.
> 
> > - Someone, or a team of someones, who are in charge of dealing with
> >   scripting issues as they come up. Ideally this person is able to
> >   be on-call at the end of each month for any emergency coding
> >   issues, and it would be better to have a group available, so that
> >   there's no single point of failure.
> 
> 
> Are the above two problems sociological problems or technological
> problems?  i.e. is the TAG-team too intimidating that people think
> twice before volunteering or are the tools being used to hammer out LG
> not sharp enough?

Hi, Raj - 

The most thorough answer to your question can be found by reading the
yahoo group at lg_tag. The quick answer is that it seems to be primarily
sociological at this point, although it's hard to poll nonexistent
volunteers to find out why they're not around ;)


> I do not have any suggestions on how to fix the problem if it is a
> sociological problem but if it is a problem with the tools, then we
> should identify the tools which cause the most headache and fix them.
> I have some perl/php scripting skills and I can help with that.

Offer noted.

Thanks,
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Kat Tanaka Okopnik
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