[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[George Herbert]

On 2/9/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> on 2/9/07 3:44 PM, geni at geniice at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Šyou end up with resentment against the lucky
> > ones.
>
> After reading all of the posts on the provocatively-named subject "Admin
> Burnout", I am hard pressed to see anything "lucky" about being "chosen" as
> one. How on earth would you go about persuading someone to take this on? The
> whole day's posts have spoken about nothing but the negative side of the
> job; are there any advantages - or are you simply hoping there are enough
> masochists out there to fill the positions?

Why is anyone contributing to Wikipedia at all?

Answer: I think we all buy the premise that we're producing something
really good here.  There are different facets of "producing", from
contributing articles, to watching for abuse and vandalism and
protecting against it, and figuring out the shape and structure of
what we're trying to do.

All are important.  All are valued.  Some are more thankless than others.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com