User:Samsara/Wikipedia analysis

Structure
Wikipedia has two kinds of elements: those that can be edited by users directly, and those produced automatically by the system. The menu on the left and top is an example of the latter, as are all the pages in the Special: namespace, and the edit histories.

Efficiency
The above is a diagrammatic representation of my experience in two months of intensive editing on wikipedia. Articles can linger mostly as red links and orphans. People seem more reluctant to create new pages than to edit existing stubs, so creating even the tiniest stub in my opinion is always the right thing to do.

Edit summaries
Edit summaries not only serve to summarise the edit in brief, so that the particular may be more easily identified in the edit history subsequently, but also as a justification for the edit. They can furthermore be used to converse with other contributors.