User:Alecmconroy

THIS USER IS: TIRED It's been a great decade, but it's time to go. Or at least, time to hibernate. I've done all I can here.

The Inevitable EnWP Burnout...

Acute Causes

• The May 2010 image deletions really shook my confidence in some leaders.
• The lack of engagement and discussion in June 2011 elections shook my faith in the global movement.
• The admission from a 'trusted insider' that my communications are ineffective and largely ignored shook my faith in my ability to productively improve the large-scale movement.
• A dispute about deletion of fair use material shook my faith in our project's ability to embrace 'openness' to the extent needed.

Chronic Causes

• Any deletion of good-faith contributions is demoralizing and a little 'un-wiki'.
• Instruction creep and an increase in 'because we said so' logic
• In content disputes, the best revision doesn't win-- the most passionate faction's revision wins. Quality doesn't always improve over time.
• Substantial edits involve Too much 'BS' time (edit disputes, etc) not enough 'authoring' time.

Insight and Predictions

• Radical innovation is required to solve these problems.
• WMF doesn't innovate rapidly or well.
• Non-WMF services will outpace our own projects.
• The cutting edge be distributed-wikis or cloud-wikis.
• WMF will be forced to play technological 'catch up' for the foreseeable futurs.

Positions

I continue to strongly support the Wikimedia Foundation, the Wiki Movement, and EnWP and wish the organizations the best. I will continue to support their values in the future. Wikimedia is a good thing, worthy of our support. My stress-to-payoff ratio has gotten too high for major contribution of time.