User:Sanchom/Tedious editing
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On tedious editing, how to recognize it, and how to break the cycle.
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[edit] What is tedious editing?
Tedious editing is editing that is tiresome, due to its length or slowness of progress. On Wikipedia, tedious editing is the cause of most of the backlogs. The two main causes of tedious editing are broken keyboards (or "kapot toetsenbords"), and an editor being limited by the speed constraints of a QWERTY keyboard.
[edit] Recognizing the problem
[edit] In yourself
- Do you often leave Wikipedia mid-edit to read YouTube comments? This is a sign your editing on this encyclopedia may be tedious.
[edit] In others
- Have you ever noticed a contribution from an otherwise diligent editor that was something of the form, "kjuyhsgrr5a32```````````````````````````". This is the pattern their face made as they were falling asleep at the keyboard. They were probably performing tedious edits. (Of course, left-handed editors would have a different face pattern.)
[edit] Getting help
Edits are only as tedious as the mind-computer connection is slow. There are several steps that you can take to overcome this difficulty.
- Switch to a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.
- Create a template for every possible text contribution that you foresee yourself making in the future. Use them generously (substituted, of course).
- Develop a brain-computer interface that reduces the lag between thought and its release under the GNU Free Documentation License to nil.
