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So Simon, Paula and I have been working on trying to make the point values completely fair.

Thanks, Randy // talk // 20:54, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Who's Kara, then? //roux   20:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
ST47 of course. iMatthew // talk // 21:06, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I would vote for increasing mainspace to 0.2. It would make an FA worth 250 edits instead of 500 and a GA worth 150 edits instead of 300. However, I'm completely biased because I only have mainspace. Useight (talk) 21:26, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I like the sound of that. Or, 0.5 for mainspace? I kid, I kid. Although that would be nice. :P   jj137 (talk) 23:40, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder how different this competition is because of minor edits only being 0.01, perhaps we could have something in the newsletter as to whose got the most mainspace points for major edits and who for minor ones? WereSpielChequers 05:29, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, since minor edits are worth 0.01 points, and Huggle and AWB edits are not counted at all, I'd think that most people don't even bother checking the minor edits box. Gary King (talk) 05:32, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well if that's the case I wonder if anyone would mind if we simplified things slightly and minor edits other than Rollbacks were marked as 0.1? WereSpielChequers 12:21, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm against that. Although I believe what I said above, I still believe that some people choose to mark some edits as minor if they really are minor. It's a kind of an honor system. Gary King (talk) 16:26, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Personally, I check edits as minor if I'm adding punctuation, fixing a typo, fixing grammar, bolding text, etc. I'm not changing my editing patterns and techniques because of my participation in the WikiCup. Useight (talk) 17:43, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OK fessing up to a personal interest in this, I suspect that most of my edits are ones I'm flagging as minor, so my score would go up a fair bit if we treated minor manual edits as 0.1, 0.05 or even 0.02 instead of 0.01. If we are all interpreting wp:minor in the same way then this isn't a problem, but if some people are as Gary put it not bothering to check the minor edit box then this might not be a level playing field. WereSpielChequers 18:04, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
So are the current points people have going to be changed, or will they stay the way they are currently, with new point values being appended? Xclamation point 23:02, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm assuming the changes will be retroactive, because for one thing, it's the easiest to do. Gary King (talk) 23:29, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I propose that mainspace becomes 0.5 and minor become 0.1 Who agrees? I only do mainspace, but I tried to have a Good Topic, but it failed. Anyway... back to edits. What!?Why?Who? (talk) 02:06, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I think the current weight of both is actually pretty good. Gary King (talk) 02:17, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
That's because you're ahead in your pool with 2 FAs! I only have mainspace and minor for now and in 5th! What!?Why?Who? (talk) 03:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, but it's a content competition, there's a reason that of the thirty people leading their pools, only six have zeros in all the columns but mainspace. Useight (talk) 03:44, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is unfair to change the point system when the game has started. When a user proposes to have his contributions devalued for whatever reason, this is a voluntary handicap, that would be ok. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 16:05, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would not be devalued, edits would be upgraded!What!?Why?Who? (talk) 03:14, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
How about an increase in Wikipedia mainspace? I work intensely at P:CLM and WP:MOTD (What did you say? :P), but I think it's only fair to perhaps make it .2 for Wikipedia mainspace, as we have some WikiProjects in need of revamping. What say you, Randy, Simon, Kara? —La Paula (TC) 01:22, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]