Barkeep49
12-28-2009, 09:11 AM
Thanks to the wonders of being a teacher I have some free time on my hands for the first time in a while and would like to do something productive with it, so I thought I would do some Wikipedia editing. I last was a real editor about 4.5 years ago and in the interim Wikipedia has gotten a lot more professional, which as a user and teacher I find wonderful, however in this case I find slightly intimidating.
I know that there are certain areas where I could really help and would love to get involved in helping with a project, but it seems like just to get up to speed I would need to invest hours of learning current standards. Am I mistaken? Is a project not the best way to go? Is there a good way for an editor to get up to speed on current standards? I really would like to help, but at this point it seems like too big of a hassle and so instead I'll just buy another computer game to play or read a couple more books.
I know that there are certain areas where I could really help and would love to get involved in helping with a project, but it seems like just to get up to speed I would need to invest hours of learning current standards. Am I mistaken? Is a project not the best way to go? Is there a good way for an editor to get up to speed on current standards? I really would like to help, but at this point it seems like too big of a hassle and so instead I'll just buy another computer game to play or read a couple more books.