User:Theo10011/Curators of content

Curators or Curators of content, is a term best used to describe experienced editors, who are well-versed in Wikipedia policy, guidelines. They are the true curators of content, they maintain it, update it and constantly review it. They can take large amounts of poorly written, questionable text and transform it into a fully guideline and policy compliant article, conforming to the style of Wikipedia.

Far too often, this distinction is overlooked. Editors are bunched up in a single classification, or perhaps the distinction between experienced and new. There are different levels of experienced, as they are of new editors. This classification is a step at demarcating the several different types of active editors that exist.

For the purposes of governance related issues, this is a very important distinction. There have been several attempts to recruit new editors, ongoing priorities that focus the fall in the number of editors on English Wikipedia. The recruited new editors through any of these processes rarely turn into curators, curators by definition are self-motivated editors who don't require an incentive to contribute. They are "true-believers" as one experienced editor put it. They start contributing without any encouragement and continue to do so, month after month.