Because of something known as real-life, I'd figure that I would
announce that I'm taking a small Wikibreak from Wikibooks. Although
I will occasionally return as time permits, any changes I make would
either be to my two "pet books" ([[Pokémon]] and [[MegaMan Battle
Network]]), or will likely be minor in nature.
Reflecting on the time at Wikibooks so far, we've seen a lot of
changes. Bookshelf reorganization ([[Wikibooks:Bookshelves]]) and
title page policy ([[Wikibooks:Title pages]]) are among the two
things I'm proud to have spearheaded as a Wikibookian. While I'd
like to see a few more things fleshed out, it seems that the work of
others have left me by the wayside, and it will be a while before I
jump into the mix again.
The main personal goals of the past few months have almost been
fulfilled - doing a quick transwiki to other projects for pages in
other languages is almost a reality, and it should leave us with pure
English pages for the most part. Admins are now reacting quicker
since there are more active ones now than before. Vandalism no
longer spreads as wild as before, and Wikibooks appears to begin to
adopt common standards for all books ([[WB:NC]]). Although policy
decisions remain largely a unilateral decision, a small community is
emerging to put their opinions into a hat to try and get some
consensus, even if agressive action was needed to get people involved.
Still, I would have liked to see more people involved. [[WB:CCO]]
was (and still is) a great idea, but it appears to have stagnated.
In some places we are running in circles with regards to policy.
Policy enforcement have ended up in major debates on how books should
be named. Little efforts are made to merge together works that have
been forked. We still lack community arbitration on how we mediate
forking disputes, bookshelf disputes, category use disputes, etc.
And the MediaWiki software isn't nearly good enough to give you
features that are beneficial to wikibooks (list all categories
belonging to a book, book-specific RC, intra-book link syntax).
Oh well, if I can't help out now, I will try and come back later to
help out. Rest assured that Wikibooks and the Wikibooks community
will remain in my heart wherever I go. But for now, my work is done.