Hailey
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In RC Patrol, when we make quick edits, sometimes I see the number above add up. I think that if quick edits are made, the edits add up, instead of decreasing. That makes more edits to patrol. If this really happens, the edits will never end.
system
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Edits will “never end” no matter what kind of edits a person is referring to; any time of the day, any day of the week. Quick edits are equally in nature as to if someone were to click on the “edit” link; they’re just done while the person is patrolling… quick edits are basically modifications of the specific edit or diff a person is patrolling at the time. All edits are equal in patrolling - whether it’s a video addition, video removal, categorization, major edit, revert, etc.
I completely agree with @maluniu
. I would also like to add, Hailey, that quick edits are often made to improve articles. There are very many good patrollers on wikiHow, who can patrol those edits. Editing is a vital part of wikiHow’s quality improvement process, whether it is copyediting an article, formatting it, adding pictures or a video to touch it up, or just fixing a few typos. Those edits are patrolled, then more edits come, and they are patrolled, too. On wikiHow, it all gets done. Patrolling and editing are both
never-ending processes. Also, as Krystle says, a high backlog in RC is much better than a lot of vandalism or spam sticking on pages.
A premise of wH is that incremental improvements to articles, ultimately, make the articles very high quality. Every edit that adds value is a positive contribution and should be encouraged. I never hesitate to make even the smallest adjustment if I feel that it makes the article better. These are quickly approved and, perhaps, additional improvements are made during subsequent patrolling and quickedits. A redeeming factor of votebot is that the bot dredges up articles so that they are seen by fresh eyes and, perhaps, improved. It is a refining process through which, bit-by-bit, the articles become awesome.
