I’m willing to write summaries of the articles, since I seem to be good at that kind of thing. I’ll start adding them alongside the links on pages like this. It will look a bit messy at first, but we can reformat the summaries that others and I add, and then perhaps add them to the top of the articles (with credit to the summarizer).
Thanks to jwhendy for pointing me to this unmet demand.
The wiki has post summaries in two places. There are pages for summaries by year (like this for 2007) and there are summaries on the sequence pages like the one you linked. Right now, it looks like the same summaries appear in both places. So your summaries (and anyone else’s) should get added to both places on the wiki.
The summaries by year have every post in chronological order, which matches how we’ll be doing the sequence reruns, so we’ll probably be copy-pasting most of our summaries from there.
Giving credit to the summarizers could be tricky since the wiki doesn’t identify who wrote what. I guess there’s information about who made each edit available in the article history, but that would take some work to dig up. Is there a simpler way to do it?
One way is that, if you add a summary, sign it (with ~~~~). I went ahead and did that with the summary I added today. Others who think they can offer an improved summary can append and sign theirs.
The disadvantage is that it adds clutter and breaks the convention of keeping signatures on the discussion pages and off the main. And assigning individual credit for summaries isn’t strictly necessary, but it’s a great motivator.
Another thing that we could do is make a thread in the discussion section about this, which will give people someplace to post their summaries and receive plaudits. That could also attract more attention and encourage more people to get involved.
I’m willing to write summaries of the articles, since I seem to be good at that kind of thing. I’ll start adding them alongside the links on pages like this. It will look a bit messy at first, but we can reformat the summaries that others and I add, and then perhaps add them to the top of the articles (with credit to the summarizer).
Thanks to jwhendy for pointing me to this unmet demand.
Edit: My first attempt at a summary.
Great! Your first summary looks good.
The wiki has post summaries in two places. There are pages for summaries by year (like this for 2007) and there are summaries on the sequence pages like the one you linked. Right now, it looks like the same summaries appear in both places. So your summaries (and anyone else’s) should get added to both places on the wiki.
The summaries by year have every post in chronological order, which matches how we’ll be doing the sequence reruns, so we’ll probably be copy-pasting most of our summaries from there.
Okay, I’ll put such additions in both places, and I recommend others do the same.
Edit: And here’s Silas summary #2.
Giving credit to the summarizers could be tricky since the wiki doesn’t identify who wrote what. I guess there’s information about who made each edit available in the article history, but that would take some work to dig up. Is there a simpler way to do it?
One way is that, if you add a summary, sign it (with ~~~~). I went ahead and did that with the summary I added today. Others who think they can offer an improved summary can append and sign theirs.
The disadvantage is that it adds clutter and breaks the convention of keeping signatures on the discussion pages and off the main. And assigning individual credit for summaries isn’t strictly necessary, but it’s a great motivator.
Another thing that we could do is make a thread in the discussion section about this, which will give people someplace to post their summaries and receive plaudits. That could also attract more attention and encourage more people to get involved.