User:Alecmconroy

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THIS USER IS: TIRED


The Inevitable 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 July 2011 dispute about about content deletion of fair use material shook my faith our 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.

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